POST #22-34 

 Day Twenty-Four...Iwo Jima Battle Narrative, 15 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 Fifteen...Stand By

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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, 15 March 1945... The day on Iwo brought the anticipated orders for BLT 1-24... Stand by to move out.

Major Webster’s info of the previous day turned out to be wrong. The battalion would not be relieving Battalion 2-24...instead, they would assume control of a larger sector. Able Company was to relieve and occupy the lines of Battalion 1-23, which had three companies on the line. Baker Company was to relieve Battalion 3-23.” The company commanders repeated their reconnaissance missions of the previous day, learning the route to the front lines and talking with the commanders in the 23rd Marines.

Major Schechter knew he had a tall order to fill, even though the Japanese were cornered. He had about one hundred men, half a company, under his command.

However, Schechter was a master of the motivating pep talk.  Schechter passed the word he was going into the area first thing in the morning with a patrol for an overnight stay, and fight it out if necessary, and needed a group of volunteers to come along.

One last effort, one gutsy patrol, led by a combat veteran who wanted only the most motivated guys in the battalion for help. It wasn’t quite what the operations order demanded, but it did the trick. When the time came and Schechter took the lead, every man fell in behind him.

The 1-24 consisting of Dads Baker Composite Company and Able Composite Company had three Marines killed for the days of 11 March to 15 March day and none wounded, with a Battalion strength of 845.

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TODAYS FULL NARRATIVE

Todays narrative is DAY TWENTY-FOUR on Iwo Jima, 14 March, 1945...It will be called Stand By...

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

https://1-24thmarines.com/the-battles/iwo-jima/reserve/#standby

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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