BMCM Maurice Poulin, World War II and my U.S. Army father-in-law 																	
							
						
										
													
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								After being transferred from the Coast Guard to the Navy in World War II, Poulin saw action in the Atlantic and Pacific while participating in many invasions while assigned the USS Leonard Wood.