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"You nearly starve to death on a troop ship. We were really happy to get off that thing, even if it meant we were going to be killed," said late US Marine, Dr. Sidney "Sid" Phillips. The fighting on Guadalcanal was just one purgatory of the first offensive in the Pacific.
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"You nearly starve to death on a troop ship. We were really happy to get off that thing, even if it meant we were going to be killed," said late US Marine, Dr. Sidney "Sid" Phillips. The fighting on Guadalcanal was just one purgatory of the first offensive in the Pacific.

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