Im talking about the Historian for Gods sakes, NOT Bradley. Bradley wasn’t distasteful. The low life researcher going over minutiae decades later and thinking he can explain Suribachi is the low life.
My dad was there, on board ship, under fire from Japanese planes, and he said what he did was nothing compared to the guys on the island.
Knew another elderly man, retired lawyer, who operated a flame-thrower on Iwo, he was a Marine, he absolutely would not talk about it, period.