I have an uncle that was with the 4th.He`s buried
on Iwo.His mother went to the cemetary when they
had the option to bring him home.She said leave him there.
Beautiful cemetary.
Bravery that was almost impossible to imagine in taking Iwo.
God Bless your uncles memory. Those marines were as tough as they come.
Also had an uncle who died on Iwo, he is buried in the National Cemetery (Punchbowl)on Oahu, HA. He was killed Feb. 19, 1945. How he got from Iwo to Hawaii I have no idea.
I visited his grave when I was stationed at Pearl Harbor many years ago,
My uncle (still alive) was a radio guy for the airplanes. Somebody mentioned it at Christmas one time, and as a kid I was “Wow - YOU were on Iwo Jima?”
“Yeah - but it was already a few days after we had landed - the other guys did the fighting. I was just setting up and operating radio gear. The Japs would shoot across the runway at us though once-in-awhile.”
He later worked for NASA and Pan Am - and was always off in some far-off place, and would bring back trinkets for his nieces and nephews.