POST #22-29 

 Day Nineteen...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, 10 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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Day Nineteen...Breather

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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 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, 10 March 1945, for the first time since the mass of replacements arrived on D-8, the battalion’s net strength actually increased. A few of those same replacements were among those returning from aid stations, field hospitals, and transport ships. Instead of cold shoulders, they received welcoming smiles. Many more were old timers who came back because they couldn’t bear to stay away.

After coming off the lines at 0630, First Battalion spent the rest of 10 March resting and recuperating. There were few, if any combat patrols during the day...the area was comparatively secure, because the Marines knew where the enemy was. They were right in front! They were near all the time. They can lob a shell or get behind them through tunnels. They never did know where the hell they were.  Caution paid off...only one man was wounded during the day and even he was not evacuated. 

The 1^st Battalion-24th Marines didn’t know it at the time, but their nineteenth day on Iwo marked the start of a relatively quiet period that would last almost until the end of the battle. A faint glimmer of hope began to shine for the survivors.

The 1-24 consisting of Dads Baker Composite Company and Able Composite Company had no Marines killed this day and none wounded, with a Battalion strength of 476.

Read the full narrative for today...it's very detailed, and again graphic...        

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TODAYS FULL NARRATIVE

Todays narrative is DAY NINETEEN on Iwo Jima, 10 March, 1945...It will be called Breather...

Click or tap HERE to go to the full narrative...It's very interesting 

https://1-24thmarines.com/the-battles/iwo-jima/d19/

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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