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Larry Kirby

82 year-old retired businessman now living in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. When a youngster just out if high school Larry Kirby enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and took part in three amphibious landings in the Pacific island war. In 1995 he wrote a book titled "Stories From The Pacific", a series of twenty short stories, memoirs actually, of his 3 1/2 years of service.

Over 6,000 copies of this book have been sold and it is considered by some veterans as the best personal account of life in combat during the war with the Japanese.