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Kamisese Mara

"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."

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"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."

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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."

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"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."

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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."

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