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John Herbert Armstrong |
| World War, 1939-1945
Navy
USS LCI 579 (Landing Craft Infantry)
New Zealand; Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Tarawa Atoll (Gilbert Islands); San Diego, California; Puget Sound, Washington; Pacific Theater
Pharmacist's Mate Second Class
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Trained to assist doctors in treating the wounded and dying on invasion beaches, John Armstrong was witness to the horrific results of war. One of the first wounded brought to his aid camp on Tarawa was a Marine mortally wounded by a sniper. Armstrong and the doctors he assisted had to stand by and watch him die, helpless to stabilize him. On the third day at Tarawa, Armstrong met a Marine who was killed later that night during a Japanese bombing raid. In one of the twists of war, he would be contacted by the mans grandniece 60 years later.
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