Uncle Pete gallery - Photo #18 - 1940s...

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peteplatoon1941
Pete's training platoon at Paris Island, June 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor. In a 1964 letter he told me he flunked out of GWU in 1940-41, so I suppose he saw the war coming and enlisted in the Marines rather waiting to be drafted into the Army. Pete is third from the right in the top row.