Iwo Jima Day

[noharleyyet]

 

[brymoore]

Basilone is in one of the landing crafts.

 

[pabearhunter]

What them boys went through when they hit the beaches. IS UNTHINKABLE unless YOU seen it in COLOR !!!

 

[noharleyyet]

Basilone is in one of the landing crafts.

Good mention..

John Basilone

 

[brymoore]

Gunny Sergeant Harris Moore pushing his men towards the airstrip. Harris would have known Basilone. Both were in the 27th Marines. He was killed on February 28th. He’s my grandfather’s cousin level relative.

 

[appaloosa]

My grandpa lost his arm on Iwo. They buried it on the island somewhere. He wouldn't even speak of what happened there!

 

[406dn]

My mother's brother was a Marine in the south Pacific. I think it was Guadalcanal, that he and one other man out of fifty marines survived during an initial beach landing.

He was a good man, took me hunting many times. He had some difficulty understanding why he was spared.

 

[Ben Lamb]

"By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue."

Chester W. Nimitz