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Enjoy the adventures of a young warrior whose metamorphosis takes him as a private in the Marine Corps back in 1947 to the Trench warfare of Korea in 1952. Follow his Marco Polo exploits to a great storm in the Arctic Circle with sixty-foot waves to the heat of “Voodoo” Jungle, Haiti in the Caribbean.Then there’s lunch in the Isle of Capri, Italy and a twelve percent mug of hot suds with the French Foreign Legion in Siddi Bel Abbes in French West Morocco.The holy year of 1950 gave the opportunity of a private audience with the Pope in Vatican City, Rome.Switzerland beckons from fun in the sun of the French Riviera. Sea duty completed, volunteered for combat four times. Patrols, raids, with battles that left too many dead and wounded. Double malaria and shrapnel with end of enlistment flew S/Sgt. Drew to Treasure Island, California to home.