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      Gene Carson was born in Marshalltown, Iowa in 1922 He joined the Marine Corps after graduating high school in June, 1942.  Mr. Carson’s service record includes the battles for Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, with the Marine 5th Amphibious Corps.  Gene Carson returned to his hometown in January, 1946 and started a thirty-year career with a gauge manufacturing firm. He also played seven years of semi-pro baseball in most of Iowa's major cities. Mr. Carson’s writing career started at the age of 70 when he began writing poetry From there he started writing short stories and then later wrote his first novel Friends by Chance, Brothers by Choice. Gene Carson married his high school sweetheart at Camp Elliott, San Diego, California, on August 5, 1943 and raised four children.

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