POST #22-19
Day Nine...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, February 28, 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 Nine...Return |
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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 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 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. Each new man was taken up on the Battalions muster rolls by today, Day Nine. Field officers tried to tailor each mans assignment to his MOS, but with so many "basic" Marines this was not always possible. Willard's MOS was 745 (Rifleman). He continued this duty, with his M-1 Garand (he wrote down the serial number of that gun in his Diary - 1940712, manufactured in August of 1943), but he was also assigned to work with a BAR squad as an ammo carrier. This additional assignment would cause a horrific change in his duties in the coming days...
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TODAYS NARRATIVE
Todays narrative is Day Nine on Iwo Jima, February 28, 1945...It will be called Return...
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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