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WW II Okinawa 96th division Artillery Forward Observers "BIG GUNS BRAVE MEN"

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Location: Livonia, Michigan

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Item must be returned within: 30 Days

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Publication Year: 2013

Language: English

Book Title: Big Guns Brave men

Era: 1940s

Author: Rodney Earl Walton

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat

Topic: Army, Combat, Memoir, True Military Stories, Weapons, World War II, Artillery

Edition: First Edition

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