Iwo Jima MemoriesGreat article on some of the few
surviving veterans.
Barely more than a year later, a week after his 19th birthday, Matheney was on a Higgins boat circling the beaches of Iwo, looking for a place to put in. It was so congested with soldiers, equipment and corpses they couldn't get in until the third day. American dead were stacked on beaches like cordwood.Something to remember when people claim that we didn't need to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.