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Enlisted one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor at Fort Hays. Marion had studied pharmacy and pre-med at the Ohio State University. |
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Went Camp Roberts, California for Combat Intelligence. Later transferred into the Medical Corps. |
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Went with the 29th division 116th regiment to train for over a year for the invasion of France. |
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Marion was part of the first wave on D-Day 116th Regiment, Company A which was hit the hardest with very few men surviving. Marion was wounded two times as a medic but made it through that morning alive. He was later transferred to the USS Charleston and did not remember anything else until he got to the hospital in South Hampton, England where he spent 30 days before returning to his original company near Saint Lo |
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Marion and his regiment liberated Saint Lo, France. From there he went through Cherbourg, France. From there they went north through Paris, then Belgium then into Germany. |
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Pushed to the Elbe River and held defensive positions until the war was over in Europe. |
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Transferred to the 69th Division as a combat medic. |