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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1791441" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11169973_702891736507288_5267191547591839765_n.jpg?oh=74fe7360b4812ec9c501935f4e4e391b&amp;oe=55CCFADB" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Sgt. Carl Wienke (1911-1982) and Pfc. Ernest Marjoram (1920-2002), Signal Corps cameramen, wading through a stream while following infantry troops in a forward area during the invasion at a beach in New Guinea. Photograph by Technician 4th Class, Ernani D'Emidio (1918-2008).April 22, 1944.&quot;Sergeant Carl L. Wienke and Private First Class Ernest B. Marjoram ford a stream with the photographer, Ernani D'Emidio behind Red Beach 2 during the invasion of Tanahmerah, Hollandia. Their 8-man Signal Corps Unit under Lt. Hillock arrived by LST three hours after the initial landing. Later, Marjoram and D'Emidio, ordered to catch up with the front line, wandered in the jungle for three days and nights attempting to catch up with the fast-moving combat. Marjoram was on his third tour; he was the only man from his first and second tours to survive the war unharmed. When the photo was widely published, it was the first time his mother learned he was in combat. Wienke also saw heavy combat but only was injured &quot;by a coconut thrown by a monkey.&quot; Wienke was a reporter for the Detroit News. He worried that &quot;his obituary would list the coconut as the cause of death.&quot;(Source - US National Archives)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1791441, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11169973_702891736507288_5267191547591839765_n.jpg?oh=74fe7360b4812ec9c501935f4e4e391b&oe=55CCFADB[/IMG] Sgt. Carl Wienke (1911-1982) and Pfc. Ernest Marjoram (1920-2002), Signal Corps cameramen, wading through a stream while following infantry troops in a forward area during the invasion at a beach in New Guinea. Photograph by Technician 4th Class, Ernani D'Emidio (1918-2008). April 22, 1944. "Sergeant Carl L. Wienke and Private First Class Ernest B. Marjoram ford a stream with the photographer, Ernani D'Emidio behind Red Beach 2 during the invasion of Tanahmerah, Hollandia. Their 8-man Signal Corps Unit under Lt. Hillock arrived by LST three hours after the initial landing. Later, Marjoram and D'Emidio, ordered to catch up with the front line, wandered in the jungle for three days and nights attempting to catch up with the fast-moving combat. Marjoram was on his third tour; he was the only man from his first and second tours to survive the war unharmed. When the photo was widely published, it was the first time his mother learned he was in combat. Wienke also saw heavy combat but only was injured "by a coconut thrown by a monkey." Wienke was a reporter for the Detroit News. He worried that "his obituary would list the coconut as the cause of death." (Source - US National Archives) [/QUOTE]

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Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982