Former U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Robert A. Henderson,

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Former U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Robert A. Henderson,

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Former U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Robert A. Henderson, 95, a Pearl Harbor survivor, tells Clemson University student Will Hines his story for the Veterans Project, an unergraduate research project, Feb. 21, 2015. The project was started to assist the Library of Congress collect, preserve and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans. "The first plane flew so close to me I could have thrown a rock and hit it," said Henderson. He would go on to serve the duration of WWII, culminated with the Battle of Okinawa. "I was in the first and last battles of the war," he said. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ken Scar)

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21/02/2015
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