1 Marine Was Wounded 5 Times on Iwo Jima — and Kept Fighting Every Time | Military History Talks

Iwo Jima. February 21, 1945.
Sergeant Darrell "Mitch" Cole.
A U.S. Marine machine gun section leader with the 23rd Marines.
His unit's advance was stopped by a system of well-protected Japanese pillboxes.
Cole attacked them — alone.
Took out two with hand grenades.
His weapons jammed. He went back for more grenades.
Knocked out a third pillbox.
He had already been wounded multiple times in earlier campaigns.
On this day, his fifth combat operation in the Pacific, he was killed silencing the final position.
Medal of Honor, posthumous.
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