Lieutenant Leroy Fadem recently revisited sites in the Pacific where he saw action in the Navy during the tumultuous years of the War in the Pacific over 70 years ago. This is a journal of that recent trip as kept by his son,Steven Fadem, who accompanied Lt. Fadem on that journey of rediscovery. For me, or the ability to share the experience of Guam with Dad was pretty unbeatable. But Iwo Jima is a once-in-a lifetime experience so nowadays came in a close moment. Too many histories exist describing that battle and I cannot possibly do it justice. On 19... Read the rest of this entry ยป
Source: navalhistory.org