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TAHLEQUAH – Paul Terry Jr., of Fort Gibson, had an intuition he would not survive his first battle in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The 20-year-old had told his cousin, Dewey Pickard, in Hawaii during Christmas 1944 that he felt he would be killed during the upcoming Iwo Jima campaign. Pickard, 19, of the 4th Marine Division, was a veteran of Marine campaigns on the Siapan and Tinian Islands, while Terry had not yet seen combat. The previous year, Terry received his paratrooper wings at Camp Pendleton, California, but the Marine paratroopers disbanded soon after, and he was assigned to post office duty on base. Itching to see combat, he volunteered to be a part of the 5th Marine Division and trained as an 81mm mortar man.

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