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| | John R. Lewis, Rutgers College Class of 1942 |
 | | John R. Lewis on May 6, 1997 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with Kurt Piehler. |
 | | And they put a Lewis machine gun on the bow, gave us a bunch of World War One rifles and a Tommy-gun, two depth charges we couldn't outrun, and said, "Go get 'em." That's about the way it was. |
 | | And then in early '43, John Buckley, who had the PT boats, used us to tow them, there were eight PT boats, and each minesweeper towed two of them, and we had an old gunboat that had gotten out of China. |
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