'Trust one who has gone through it.'
Virgil (70–19 BC)
Posted in a landing craft, personnel, ramped (LCPR) to assist Underwater Demolition Team swimmers aboard, Boatswain's Mate Cecil J. Freeman misjudged his strength. He tossed this swimmer, returning from demolition work off Balikpapan in August 1945, on his head.
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