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My Men are My Heroes

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Serier serie Leatherneck Classics
My Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum. Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal, the pride of Iowa, is a small town boy who wanted to be a United States Marine even before a poster perfect Marine recruiter marched into his high school gym and offered him a challenge Kasal couldn‘t resist. Two decades later Kasal stood stiffly at ... Læs mere

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Roughneck Nine-One

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