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COMBAT STORIES FROM World War II

Donald Whipple | 28th Combat Team, Headquarters and Service Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division - Marines

5:18   |   Young Donald Whipple had just read a book named They Were Expendable about PT Boat crews in the retreat from the Philippines. He was inspired to see if he could measure up to the heroics he read about, so he joined the Marines. As he got off the train, he heard from Marines at the station a refrain he would hear many times in the next few weeks, "You'll be sorry!" (Provided by LifeCairn, Inc.)

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