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World War II Speaker Series Staff Sergeant Conrad O. Hansen 568 th Signal Air Warning Battalion –Army; Detachment October 11, 2010.

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1 World War II Speaker Series Staff Sergeant Conrad O. Hansen 568 th Signal Air Warning Battalion –Army; Detachment October 11, 2010

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9 "...This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will be just the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island." Lieutenant General Holland M. "Howlin'Mad" Smith concerning the upcoming battle on Iwo Jima

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