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Martin O'Donovan
(Bonovan)
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E-1 Private, Marine Corps
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World War-II
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I remember heroic Bonovan storming several German machine-gun nests during the Ardennes campaign in late '44 and almost single-handednly clearing their foxholes.
He saved my life twice, and he must've saved the other guys in the unit too: The Belgian, The Frenchman, The Monkey, Smithers and McMeek. He was killed near Bastogne on 28 December 1944 by the German grenades we used to call 'bean tins'. I reckon the 'bean tins' were meant for the Frenchman, but Bonovan pushed him out the way and sacrificed his own life.
He saved Smithers life too, but couldn;t stop the guy from being blinded.
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