Jesse Gibbs |
Jesse Gibbs, 2003 [detail] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army Air Forces/Corps
302nd Fighter Control Squadron; Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 7th Fighter Command
Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Keesler Field, Mississippi; Bradley Field, Connecticut; Kipapa Field, Stanley Field, Wheeler Field and Hickam Field, Oahu; Iwo Jima; Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Pacific Theater
Sergeant
Grove, KY
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In a remarkable monologue lasting nearly 20 minutes, Air Corpsman Jesse Gibbs
recounts what he saw during the intense fighting on Iwo Jima. His job was to bring
ashore motorized transportation and he admits that the only time he ever fired a weapon
was during a celebration that attended a false report that Germany had surrendered to the
Allies. But Gibbs witnessed plenty of horrors, including the suicidal charge of a lone
Japanese soldier carrying a hand grenade and the ghastly remains of another enemy
combatanta sight that made him wonder if the world had gone completely mad.
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