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Bougainville
Dec 1943

Corporal Henry Bahe, Jr. (left) and Private First Class George H. Kirk, Navajos serving with a Marine Signal Unit, operate a portable radio set in a clearing they've hacked in the dense jungle close behind the front lines.

OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO

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