« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima  (Read 213 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 176,814
This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima
« on: February 23, 2025, 12:42:53 pm »
 
This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima
By Claire Barrett
 Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025

 
Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris. Harris died on July 25, 2020.

“We were all scared,” Marine Corps and World War II veteran Don Harris told Military Times in 2020. “Anybody who wasn’t was crazy. Sometimes, it was a combination of both crazy and scared.”


As a member of the Signal Company, 4th Marines, Harris made an astounding five amphibious landings during the Pacific War: Roi-Namur (Kwajalein), Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1923, Harris was a recent high school graduate when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. Thirteen days later, Harris turned 18 and a year later found himself on board a bus for Parris Island and an indefinite enlistment in the Marine Corps.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2025/02/19/this-marine-endured-five-amphibious-assaults-and-survived-iwo-jima/
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 176,814
Re: This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2025, 12:43:26 pm »
 :flag:
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »