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“We got in a couple of hundred yards in within the beach and afterwards the Japanese opened fire on us,” said Al "Duke" Dellaera, an 18-yr-aged Marine with 1st Marine Division at the time, recalling an assault from the early days with the invasion. “We were being ambushed, definitely astonished. All I saw was particles slipping all over.”If