“Three iron tanks, two carrying fuel and one with nitrogen. Williams chose four Marines to provide cover. “He asked me if I could do anything using the flame thrower.”
That afternoon, Williams was summoned to a meeting in a large bomb crater with his commander. 'I thought I had a million-dollar idea: 'I need a mother's day card song.' The song appeared on her Thank You album, and the singer-songwriter recorded a phone conversation with her mom, Kelli Trainor, to make it extra special. While he gave music lessons to priests in training. 23, the famous Iwo Jima flag went up, but the Marines had hardly begun to take the island. Meghan Trainor revealed to BBC that the 2016 song, 'Mom,' came about when she was brushing her teeth. director, Ono Gempan, was responsible for bringing the music to a high level of performance. Sign up for Black Tennessee Voices newsletter: Read compelling columns by Black writers from across Tennessee. Sign up for Latino Tennessee Voices newsletter: Read compelling stories for and with the Latino community in Tennessee. All we had for protection was the bomb craters from planes shelling the island.” Made of concrete and reinforced with steel, not even tanks could take them out. There was no cover from the line of pillboxes on the other side. “We climbed through the bodies and the wreckage of destroyed tanks and equipment, finding ourselves facing an airfield. When Williams went ashore Feb. 21, the sight of Marine bodies wrapped in their ponchos, stacked along the beach, moved him deeply. Japanese troops killed or wounded nearly 2,500 Marines as they hit the beach, Feb. 19 and 20. Kuribayashi’s plan was to let the Marines come ashore where they couldn’t escape.” DG Songs & Music: In the Key of DG Songbook (Lyrics and Sheet Music).
The other islands had set up defenses in the water. Adviser Training Academy (ATA) Bulletin of Information. But General Tadamichi Kuribayashi had been educated in the U.S. British and French troops gather around a trench cello at the Battle of Ypres.While music was used for training purposes at home, music making was the most. Williams became a flame-thrower operator and joined the Guam campaign, where he remained until February, 1945.Īccording to the USMC Museum, Iwo Jima was barely 10 square miles in area and had sustained months of bombardment from air and sea.
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