God Isn't Here: A Young American's Entry into World War II and His Participation in the Battle for Iwo Jima
This is an account dealing with that time I spent in the U. S. Naval military service during World War II.  The events began in June 1943, and ended on April 10, 1946, and are based upon what I observed, heard, smelled or felt.  Nothing that I have written is based upon hearsay information unless it is identified as such. In order to refresh my memory, I relied upon written material I had gathered during those war years. It exists in the form of military pamphlets, directives, newsletters,  memoranda, and photographs.   Fortunately, while in Japan just after hostilities ceased, in an attempt to better understand what I had endured, I made hand written notes, which I still have today. Although I have read published accounts by others concerning the battle for Iwo Jima, I refrained from using their recollections as reference material because of some "difference of impression."  Those differences are no doubt due to the confusion and messiness of war. I do not intend this to be a novel.  It is meant to record, and to convey to the reader, the experiences an American youth encountered during the Second World War.  I hope that the reader may understand in some way that what I experienced.Richard E. Overton