POST #22-18
Day Eight...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, 27 Feb, 1945..
Mikey's Dads 100th Birthday Was This Month...
We continue the day-by-day story of the 1-24 Marines in the bloody battle of IWO JIMA...
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| Day Eight...Replacements |
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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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On this day, February 27th, Willard (Dad) and the 1-24 were called to build troop strength and replace Marines who were injured or killed, and were assigned to other units. Tomorrow they would venture out into the battlefield areas. Things are about to become a living Hell.
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TODAYS NARRATIVE
Todays narrative is Day Eight on Iwo Jima, February 27, 1945...It will be called Replacements...
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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