Thinking back 70 years

Seventy   years. . I began thinking about what I was doing 70 years ago and I remember that   as 1945 began I was at Hawaii on the USS Pickens, APA 190, preparing to attack Iwo Jima.  We would spend a week with Marines, loading them into boats and taking them to attack a vacant island.

 We would  return those Marines to base, load on another group of Marines, and do the same thing again.

 I don't remember when we became aware that our training was for the attack on Iwo Jima.