There were 27 Medals of Honor awarded for action on Iwo Jima..22 to Marines, 5 to Navy corpsmen. 14 were posthumous. The 27 MoH represented about 30% of ALL the MoH awarded to Marines during the entire Pacific War
One of the very few “stories” Dad would tell us about his experience was that he lost all of the first group of corpsmen and writing those letters home was among the most difficult of duties he had.