The Medal of Honor recipient who became a ‘One-Man Regiment of Iwo Jima’
By: Claire Barrett | Published: 2026-02-19 13:00:00 | Source: www.armytimes.com
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It had been one week since roughly 60,000 service members rushed ashore the sulfurous outcropping that was Iwo Jima.
Despite the island being barely 10 square miles in area, “assault troops,” writes the Naval History and Heritage Command, “were to be subjected to a step-by-step battle of attrition, slowly progressing from one well-defended killing zone to the next.”
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