POST #22-31
Day Twenty-One...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, 12 March, 1945..
Mikey's Dads 100th Birthday Was on 2-22-2022...
We continue the day-by-day story of the First Battalion, 24th Marines, Baker company in the bloody battle of IWO JIMA...
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On 2-22-2022) Mikey's Dad, Willard W. Wemple would have been 100 years old. We are following Dad's time in the First Battalion, 24th Marines, Baker company, from February 19th to March 17th, 1945, in....Operation Detachment.
What we post here on the Blog Post about the B-1-24 will be minimal. But we will add links leading to a very good, detailed website...1st Battallion-24th Marines 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, 12 March 1945...Three weeks after the
landing on Iwo Jima, the First Battalion enjoyed what might have passed as a
restful day. From midnight until dawn on Day 21, the entire RCT-24 area was
quiet and free from enemy activity. No significant operations were recorded in
the unit journal, save for the local combat patrols. This was preferable to
spending time on the front lines, even as the front lines were shrinking. By
the end of 12 March, Japanese resistance in the Fourth Marine Division sector
was a small perimeter about 200 yards square in TA 185K.
Read the full narrative below...
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TODAYS FULL NARRATIVE
Click or tap HERE to go to the full narrative...It's very interesting
https://1-24thmarines.com/the-battles/iwo-jima/reserve/#patrols
Over the next posts and next days we will continue posting daily updates that will follow 1-24-B in the battle through logs and stories of the battle as told by a Military Historian and battle participants on the 1st Battallion-24th Marines Website...
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