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So I'll just jump into it now.

So my guest today is Ray E. Boomhauer, the author of Richard Tragaskis reporting under fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam.

Tragascus covered the war from the Doolittle Raid to the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal.

He was on the Russell Islands.

He was on bombers over the South Pacific.

He then went to Sicily, where he was wounded in the head.

Was at the Battle of Aachen, went back to the Pacific to fly in B-29s over Japan and was on the USS Ticonderoga

where he flew along with some torpedo bombers and then after the war he traveled the world

and reported in Korea and Vietnam and vietnam and did all this

while suffering from diabetes and he still managed to write three books during the war but despite all

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