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Richard H. Dues

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NAME:
Richard Henry Dues
NICKNAME:
SERVICE NUMBER:
913257
HOME OF RECORD:
Celina, OH
NEXT OF KIN:
Mother, Mrs. Lillian Studer
DATE OF BIRTH:
9/19/1925
SERVICE DATES:
10/14/1943 – 11/8/1945
DATE OF DEATH:
9/27/1978
CAMPAIGN UNIT MOS RATE RESULT
Saipan A/1/24 675 PFC WIA
INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS:
Purple Heart
LAST KNOWN RANK:
Corporal

Biography coming soon.

Friends in war and in peace. Dues and Elissagaray catch up over a drink while a barfly in the background eyes the dashing young Marines.Dues (at left) visits with his foxhole buddy Bernard Elissagaray.
Date unknown, but presumably taken in 1945 when both Marines were recuperating in Oakland, California.

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