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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97120

"YI-I-I ! IT'S A BOY!


"Bearing glad tidings of the birth of a son, Chaplain Rickel delivers a field message to Corporal Edward J. Combs ... The yound Marine is recovering from injuries suffered on the eastern front."
Photograph taken by Sgt. Martin Bolhower. Original print bears no date, but it was filed with illustrations for the August 1952 issue of "All Hands" magazine, and was presumably taken a few months previously.

Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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17 November 1999