1SG Smith tells Marines of his father's landing on this beach on 1 April 1945 
posted by Ken and Alice at 6:39 AM
Friday, April 01, 2005
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First Sergeant Smith's father was a twenty year old Marine in the 6th Division who boarded a Higgins boat to land here in 1945.
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