My late father-in-law Gunnery Sargent John “Jack’’ Scharffenberger, 4th. Marine Division was wounded on that damned island but made it home ok. God bless them all. “When the Army and Navy ever gaze upon Heavens scenes/ they will find the streets are guarded/by United States Marines’’.
“And when he gets to Heaven, to St. Peter he will tell,
“Another Marine reporting, sir; I’ve served my time in Hell!”
God bless the Marines!
My dad was in the 4th also, but didn’t go to Iwo after being shot on Tinian. I think he as in F 24, but it’s highly unlikely they knew each other. He did say not many of his company made it off Iwo unscathed. I get the quarterly , Fighting Fourth Division of WW2, the newsletter of the 4th Marine Division Association’s survivors.I read it end to end .
We were blessed to have such men as parents.