Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance
Publisher: McKenna Publishing
Published: 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
Table of contents: title: What was it like to walk through a hailstorm of deadly enemy firre in the bloodiest battle of World War II? On 19 February 1945, Arvy Geurin, RM/3C, US Navy on board the USS NAPA, was about to find out. "We weren't action heroes or extraordinary men. We were farm boys and city jocks; scholars and drop-outs; rich and poor; we were just young men brought together by a common goal, moving toward the hungry jaws of war."; title: WALKING THROUGH FIRE: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance is one man's time on that small Japanese island. This former Navy Radioman, who lives now in Capitola, California, doe snot consider himself a hero, even though with his actions, lives were saved. He landed with the Fourth marines, whom he does consider heroes, and entered hell on earth, an ordinary man who became extraordinary under fire.