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"A Light that Saved a Life: Marine Private First Class Otis E. Boss compares the flame of his match to that of the Commanding General’s lighter in the latter’s office. Major General R. McC. Tompkins, commander of the 3d Marine Division, presented the young radioman from the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines [2/4], an engraved division lighter after learning how Boss signaled an aerial observer with a single match . This enabled him to be rescued after spending five hours alone surrounded by the NVA during an operation north of Dong Ha (official USMC photo by Sergeant Bruce Atwell)."

From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Date Taken in 1968
Source Otis Boss Receives a Lighter, 1968
Author USMC Archives from Quantico, USA

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