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Rusty Mulcahy holds his .45 pistol with photos of his first wife under plexiglass that he carried with him during WWII.
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Rusty Mulcahy shows off the bullet hole in the helmet he was wearing one of the two times he was wounded in combat in the South Pacific during WWII.
Photo courtesy of John Mulcahy
Marine Sgts. John Mulcahy, left, and Patrick Murphy were friends from Great Falls, Mont. who enlisted separately in the Marine Corps. After three years of separation they met at a ceremony at which both received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in the Marshall Islands campaign.
The War Years – Special Section
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