POST #22-16
Day Six...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, February 25, 1945..
Mikey's Dads 100th Birthday Was This Month...
We Will Be continuing the day-by-day story of the 1-24 Marines in the bloody battle of IWO JIMA...
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On February 22, 2022, (2-22-22) Mikey's Dad, Willard W. Wemple would have been 100 years old. We will be following Dad's time in the First Battalion, 24th Marines, Baker company, from February 19th to March 17th, 1945, in....Operation Detachment.
We will not be putting very much on these posts about the 1-24 On Iwo Jima, instead we will post links here leading to a very good, detailed website that will give way more information than we can deliver ourselves. We must warn you that some of the information will be graphic and upsetting, but will give you some idea about what Dad and the other Marines experienced. If you see a mention of Baker Company, that is the unit dad was to be assigned to.
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Dad told us a story not long before he passed about a Lieutenant sending him out to scout the perimeter. He said that he figured that this was when he was going to "get it" and meet his end... But he had a praying mother, and she sent him an Armored Bible that he carried over his heart through the entire battle...
God protected Dad! It was not his day to "Get It"! He survived to come home, with his Armored Bible, and we still have it today!
On this day, February 25th, Willard (Dad) and the 1-24 continued to be held back in reserve, closer to the beach, still doing support duty, carrying supplies, sorting discarded gear, assisting with the wounded, etc.
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TODAYS NARRATIVE
Todays narrative is Day Six on Iwo Jima, February 21, 1945...It will be called Scout...
Click or tap HERE to go to the narrative...It's very interesting
Over the next posts and next days we will continue posting daily updates that will follow the battle through logs and stories of the battle as told by a Military Historian and participants on the 1st Battallion-24th Marines Website...
Until Next Time!!
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