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The Medal of Honor recipient who became a ‘One-Man Regiment of Iwo Jima’
Watson killed 60 enemy soldiers in a quarter-hour during fierce assaults on fortified positions, enabling his unit to secure key objectives, the Naval History and Heritage Command reported.
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The Medal of Honor recipient who became a ‘One-Man Regiment of Iwo Jima’
It had been one week since roughly 60,000 service members rushed ashore the sulfurous outcropping that was Iwo Jima.Despite the island being barely 10 square miles in area, “assault troops,” writes the Naval History and Heritage Command, “were to be subjected to a step-by-step battle of attrition, slowly progressing from one well-defended killing zone to the next.”American air superiority by this late state of the war left the Japanese ground fo…
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