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1st MarDiv
Ballarat
7 July 1943 Photog: Ashman

Private First Class Preston Toledo (left) and Private First Class Frank Toledo, cousins and Navajos, attached to a Marine Artillery Regiment in the South Pacific will relay orders over a field radio in their native tongue.

OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
USMC #57875

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