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"ref": "2010, Herb Brewer, Chronicles of a Marine Rifleman: Vietnam, 1965-1966, page 171",
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"ref": "2012, Whit Howland, The Case of the Sad Luck Dame: A Huey Dusk Caper",
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"ref": "2012, Brewster MaCoy, A Fear of Dying: A Soldier's Story, page 135",
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"ref": "2015, Tom Green, The Blue Hand:, page 71",
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