He served in both Normandy and Iwo Jima??? If only he had been a crew member on a 8th Air Force B-17 crew too he would have been the only triple crown winner of most dangerous assignments during WWII.
Remember the Army got around a lot, they did most of the fighting and dying in the Pacific, and had to do Africa and Europe.
My dad was Navy but he was in all three theaters during various stages of the war.