[trebb]

I had an old friend who fought on Iwo Jima - one hell of a gentleman with a lot of stories (very few about being in the war though). Old age took him from us a few years ago.

[Little Bill]

Had a Watch Engineer who was in the first wave on Iwo as a BAR man. According to his estimate he lasted seven minutes, his ammo humper was KIA along with most of his Platoon.

He was the mellowest man I have ever met, nothing bothered him, Met his wife, a Nurse, who tended him on the Hospital Ship. His son was a VN Marine Vet.