James C. Corman, United States Marine Corps, World War II (3/5)
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Today we continue to honor a Los Angeles City Council member, Democratic Congressman from California, United States Marine Corps Veteran, and University of Southern California Alumni. Corman was a cadet officer at UCLA with the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and he was made a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in June 1943. In 1944, he told of the death of a Japanese soldier he witnessed in the Mariana Islands while his Marine unit was guarding a food supply. The Marines held their fire until the Japanese "began pawing over the in the darkness, and then opened fire." One Japanese "fell wounded over a crate of salmon cans. His companions fled."
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