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Description:Marine captive. Corporal Edward Burckhardt, of Yonkers, New York, sports a kitten that he found at the base of Mt. Suribachi on the battlefield of Iwo Jima when he came ashore with the Fifth Marine division. (National Archives, USMC 110, 801).
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