[rottndog]

The gentleman shown facing in your pic is Julian Pleasants. Clair Chaffin is the man facing away from the camera in the lower left corner of the picture.

Here's another picture from a different angle of the same event (Clair Chaffin is on the right):

WW II panel members at "Testimony of War" program in November 2008. From
left to right: Clif Cormier, Iwo Jima survivor; Victor Cote, ex-POW held by the
Japanese; moderator Julian Pleasants; Frank Towers, Operation Cobra and
Battle of the Bulge survivor; and Clair Chaffin, corpsman on Saipan and Iwo
Jima. (photo by Ira Fischler)

[savedbygrace]

Thanks for the correction.

[savedbygrace]

Wow, he was in both Saipan and Iwo Jima. Two of the deadliest battles in the Pacific.

[ETL]

Thanks for the clarification. They didn’t make it at all clear which one he was in the earlier pic.

I tracked down the link for your photo:
http://web.history.ufl.edu/oral/publicprograms.html

[ETL]

"Clair Chaffin, corpsman on Saipan and Iwo Jima."

Source:
http://web.history.ufl.edu/oral/publicprograms.html

[ETL]

From 2007...

4th MarDiv Association holds reunion

Maj. Gen. James L. Williams, commanding general, 4th Marine Division, talks with 4th Marine Division Association President Clair Chaffin aboard the paddle wheeler “Belle of Louisville” during the association’s 60th reunion Sept. 8. (Official U. S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. G. S. Thomas)

4th MarDiv Association holds reunion
http://mfr.usmc.mil/MFRNews/2007/2007.09/60th.asp