POST #22-26
Day Sixteen...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, 7 March, 1945..
Mikey's Dads 100th Birthday Was 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 February 22, 2022, (2-22-22) 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, 7 March 1945, Charlie Company, which had spent the last 3 days in the
rear as a regimental reserve, moved to the front lines to relieve Baker Company,
which was used up and worn out, and took their turn. Dad and Baker Company were placed in
regimental reserve and moved to the rear.
Charlie
Co had 13 marines killed and 21 wounded this day, 7 March, 1945. Willard(Dad)s Baker Company had no men killed or wounded.
Unfortunately being moved to the rear for regimental reserve was not going to last...the next day was to be the 1-24's worst day of the campaign...
Read the narrative for today...it's very detailed, and again graphic...
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TODAYS NARRATIVE
Click or tap HERE to go to the narrative...It's very interesting
https://1-24thmarines.com/the-battles/iwo-jima/d16/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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