Second Battalion Marines Lebanon - Cruise Book

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First Sgt. Dunsworth, battalion sergeant major Cfar rightj was relieved at formal ceremonies shortly before the battalion left. And finally, the day before leaving, personal gear was staged in the bat- talion area Qleftj . . . ,firm . .. to be loaded on trucks the next day bound for the point of embarka- tion, Morehead City, N. C. And at 1400, 1 May, 1958, the . last two ships to be loaded slid a- way from the docks at Morehead City ..... . . . . the tell-tale propellor's wake trailing out behind the ships,,ypr0- viding a constant reminder that we were at last underway . . . v

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