[The following is in regards to the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.]
Father Paul Bradley went in on the third wave. “I was young,” he recalled later, “and didn’t think about the danger to me. And I was too busy crawling from dying man to dying man. It was always, ‘Father, over here!’ Once I was kneeling in the sand administering to a guy who had been hit. There was a loud thud! His eyes closed. He’d been hit again and was dead. ‘Father, over here!’ someone called. I went on to the next one.”
Source:
Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. “D-Day.” Flags of Our Fathers. Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006. 161. Print.
Further Reading:
Battle of Iwo Jima / Operation Detachment
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