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Description:Carries on. Lt. Col. R.G. Balance, Champagne, Ill. Of the 1st Division goes about the business of leading his pioneer battalion against the Japanese despite wounds he received from shrapnel. The sign marks the shore party command post. September 1944. (National Archives).
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