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1st MarDiv
Ballart, South Pacific
7 July 1943

Corporal Lloyd Oliver, a Navajo Indian, operates a field radio while attached to a Marine Artillery Regiment in the South Pacific. Cpl. Oliver also is a sniper and a highly regarded scout.

OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
USMC

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