Navy Hospital Corpsmen and Navy chaplain tend to wounded Marines at aid station before transfer to hospital LST’s lying off the beaches. 13th Marines (Artillery), 5th Marine Div., Iwo Jima, ca. 23 Feb. 1945. [1024 × 780]

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KapitanKurt

23 Navy doctors and 827 Navy Corpsman were killed or wounded during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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Lawdoc1

I went there while I was an active duty Corpsman stationed in Japan.

I am not a “spiritual” person, but it was as close to a spiritual experience as I have had.

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