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Description:Bougainville. Corporal Henry Blake, Jr. (left) and Private First Class George Kirk, Navajo Native Americans 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. December 1943. (USMC #69889-A, National Archives).
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