Monday, March 9, 2015

"I'm hit. I'm going down!"

Much fierce fighting on Iwo Jima remained but it was apparent that the Marines would be victorious ( the war ended March 18.)  The Pickens had completed its job and  was headed back to Saipan.

i don't remember just when I left my  job on deck and returned to the radar shack.  We were  listening to the TBS when we heard a frightened voice   exclaim, "I'm hit, I'm going down!" The  pilot's cry brought the war home to me like nothing else.

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