4 the good ones, there are some, few and far between, my grandad could have been there, he was Gen Geiger's personal secretary, Gen Geiger, like Camp Geiger North carolina, he was the commander of forward echelon marine pacific, a 4 star general, my Pop a private, two kids, 26 years old, an associates dergree from Ft Scott, Kansas, miss u Pop, rest in peace

Approximately 70,000 U.S. Marines invaded the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, initiating a brutal 36-day battle against roughly 21,000 entrenched Japanese defenders. The battle, which aimed to secure an emergency landing base, resulted in over 26,000 American casualties, including nearly 7,000 deaths, making it one of the costliest in Marine Corps history