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Dad with  Thompson machine gun.

M1917A1

 M1919A4

 He  fought with  both the water-cooled 30cal: the M1917A1, as well as the .30caliber  M1919A4 machine gun. which were referred to  as the "heavy" and the 'light" guns, respectively

 "Sgt. Bright had a built-in smile even on Iwo (Jima), when the going was rough.. "  He continued, "Joseph was a dedicated and sincere Marine, ever watchful to the situation at hand. At dusk each day, he would drive stakes, using wire & a phosphorus grenade to give plenty of light to shoot infiltrators sneaking into and through our line of defense at night - - more than once the Japs would crawl into the wire pulling the grenade pin out and illuminating the area, once immediately in front of my area.."

The late Henry Hastings, a   Marine who was in the same Company as Dad, wrote in '95,  

"No words can describe the horror your father and I experienced. Your father was a very good Marine..

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