File:A US marine soldier In Vietnam holds his Zippo lighter which stopped a piece of weapon shrapnel and thus saved him from injury, 1969 (Ernst Woodruff, H Co, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines).jpg

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US marine soldier in Vietnam holds his Zippo lighter which stopped a weapon shrapnel and thus saved him from injury, 1969

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English: "Lance Corporal Ernst Woodruff, a German national and machine gunner in H/2/5, holds his Zippo lighter after it had been hit by a piece of shrapnel while in his pocket, Quang Nam, 1969. Woodruff was not harmed."

From the Barry Broman Collection (COLL/4613) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

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