[caption id="attachment_49070" align="alignright" width="1020"]<a href="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Don-R-and-Vernon-L-Wersler-as-PFC.jpg"><img class="wp-image-49070 size-large" src="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Don-R-and-Vernon-L-Wersler-as-PFC-1024x850.jpg" alt="" width="1020" height="847" /></a> Don (right) and his twin brother, Vernon Wersler (left), as PFC[/caption]

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Beaufort’s “Dancing Don” Wersler, 97, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps straight from high school in June 1943. He served during World War II aboard the USS Vincennes (CL-64) as a member of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun crew. Vincennes saw service in the battles of the Mariana Islands, Philippines, Leyte Gulf, Formosa, and off Okinawa and Japan. He served 24 years in the Corps at a variety of posts from Hawaii to Newport, including Parris Island. He retired as a Master Sergeant and is known all around Beaufort for his dancing and volunteer work.

– Compiled by John Chubb, American Legion Post 9.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

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