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Sullivan brothers

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    …of another family: the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa, who enlisted in the Navy together and were all killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. After that, the military adopted stricter rules of separating immediate family members—which is how the four Niland brothers ended up in different units. That…

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