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COMBAT STORIES FROM World War II

Owen Koch | Joint Assault Signal Company, 2nd Marine Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division - Marines

3:59   |   One of Owen Koch's tasks was to carry and deploy big spools of wire for field telephones. Simple enough, but his partner was 6' 4' tall and that made for a comical sight as they tried to keep the spool level. The randomness of death in war was driven home when his friend Frank Reed was killed just inches away as they shared a foxhole.

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