Thanks Curly1! We have a family friend who was in the 6th Marine Division during WW2 and fought on some of the islands mentioned in the pics. He never liked to talk about his experience during this period in his life but last year he opened up a little bit to tell us about the fighting on Okinawa. His Company (Charlie Co) started out on May 10th 1945 with 200 men to take Charlie Hill which they did but by the end of the day there were only 35 of them left. Approximately two weeks later he got hit in the left shoulder by Japanese hand grenade fragments. He had a corpsman dig what he could, pack it with sulfur, bandage it and kept on fighting.
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