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This photo provided by the National WWII Museum shows a photo of 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones, who died in the bloody assault on a Japanese-held island during World War II. Before Jones died, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved. Laura Mae Davis Burlingame _ she married an Army Air Corps man in 1945 _ had given the diary to Jones, and didn’t know it had survived him until visiting the museum on April 24. (AP Photo/National WWII Museum)
This photo provided by the National WWII Museum shows pages from the diary by 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones, who died in the bloody assault on a Japanese-held island during World War II. Before Jones died, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved. Laura Mae Davis Burlingame _ she married an Army Air Corps man in 1945 _ had given the diary to Jones, and didn’t know it had survived him until visiting the museum on April 24. (AP Photo/National WWII Museum)
In this May 23 photo at her Moorseville, Ind., home, Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, 90, holds a photo of herself from Winslow High School. The photo filled the back cover of a diary she had given to a Marine Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones, a 22-year-old machine-gunner, who died in the bloody assault on a Japanese-held island during World War II. Burlingame didn’t know the military diary she gave Jones had survived him. She saw it and read, “If this Diary is lost and if it is Possible please return it to Miss Laura Mae Davis. Address. Winslow Indiana.” (AP Photo/Michael Conroy
This photo provided by the National WWII Museum shows the first entry from the diary of 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones, who died in the bloody assault on a Japanese-held island during World War II. Before Jones died, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved. Laura Mae Davis Burlingame _ she married an Army Air Corps man in 1945 _ had given the diary to Jones, and didn’t know it had survived him until visiting the museum on April 24. (AP Photo/National WWII Museum)
LAST LIFE REQUEST
to anyone who might find his diary
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