Photo brings back war memories for SH man

Scott Swanson

Darrell Goddard was looking at a Time-Life book on World War II some years ago when he saw a scene that looked very familiar.

In a U.S. Army photo from a battle on Bougainville Island, near New Guinea, was a tank with the name “Lucky Legs II” emblazoned on it. A tall, athletically built soldier stood upright, firing a rifle at the right of the tank, while other American GIs crouched or crawled…

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