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    FAREWELL

    Dec 03, 2019 3 minutes
    By Jon Guttman

    , best known for Stars and Stripes photographer John Olson’s picture showing him leading his Marines during the battle at Hue in 1968 and for subsequently taking the highest tower in the city, died in Wasilla, Alaska, on Oct. 1, 2019, at age 75. Known to his comrades in D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as “Cajun Bob” for the accent acquired from his birthplace of Baton

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