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I’ll leave it to URR to write the history of one of the most vicious battles of the war, a battle that still serves as a touchstone to the Marines today. He has several weeks to address it. That tiny island you see in the photo below would take six weeks to secure. Uncommon valor…
I’ll leave it to URR to write the history of one of the most vicious battles of the war, a battle that still serves as a touchstone to the Marines today. He has several weeks to address it. That tiny island you see in the photo below would take six weeks to secure.
Uncommon valor was a common virtue- Nimitz
Say something good about the Fourth Marine Division and I will show it to dad. He was in all the 4ths festivities, Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo. Needless to say not in a rifle company. Hq. Company Radioman.
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My Father is part of a group of combat veterans called Cooper’s Troopers. They meet every two months I believe and always have a guest speaker of some note, sometimes a recently returned veteran, other times one of thier one speaking about his individual war experience. This week they commemorated the Iwo landing and had 7 (!!) Marine veterans of Iwo in attendance. It sounded like a great evening, and the Iwo Jima veterans were treated as would be expected by a group of fellow combat veterans.
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This week is the annual Iwo Jima Association of America reunion and symposium here in DC, so today I toured the NMMC with more than 20 Iwo veterans. While waiting for a table for lunch at Tun Tavern, three young Marines gave up their table for Iwo veteran Glenn Murphy, so we got seated promptly. I got a lot of video of interviews, just need to see if the sound quality is any good. Quite the treat!
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URR, wasn’t Iwo the first time Japan tried a defense in depth, as opposed to the “stop them at the water’s edge” approach?
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[…] I’ll be able to add the videos from the Museum later. Thanks to the folks over at Load the HEAT for prodding me to […]
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It was the first time they tried it on such a large scale. I believe the first time they purposefully did not contest the beaches was on Biak. My father was there, and I remember him saying nobody expected that. So they came ashore and were just about thinking the Japanese garrison had evacuated, when all hell broke loose. A bloody shambles until they got on top of it.
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