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I can't wait to see it. My Dad was not on Iwo, but he was first wave at Saipan and Pelelieu. Wounded both times. He was a Marine too. I got pictures he took on both islands. He drove a bulldozer and at Saipan when they misjudged the tide and coral reefs he was sent ashore in the bulldozer with welded plates around the seat and a Thompson as a weapon so grunts could follow him in. When he finally stopped he couldn't belive his eyes as there were bullet holes like swiss cheese in the plate all over but not a scratch on him.
He got one in the leg while on the same bulldozer piling up japanese bodies for burning. A sniper got him. Pelelieu he got stung twice in the calf of each leg, they sent him to New Zealand after that for R&R then to Tinian for guard duty on the airstrip, Watched the Enola Gay take off at 2 in the morning right over him as he sat in his jeep. Didn't know what all the fuss was about till the next day.
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