| Interviewee | LINDBERG, Charles W. (b. 1920) |
| Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division |
| Interview ID # | OH 1224 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | His experiences during the battle for Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Experiences with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal, 1942-43, and Bougainville, 1943; integration into the newly formed 5th Marine Division, 1944; assignment as a flamethrower man; descriptions of and comments about individuals in Easy Company, 28th Marines; preparations for the Iwo Jima Campaign; the landing on Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945; combat from the beach to the base of Mount Suribachi; his destruction of a Japanese bunker and receiving the Silver Star; assault on the summit of Mount Suribachi by a forty-man column; his participation in the raising of the first U. S. flag on Mount Suribachi, February 23, 1945; combat inside the rim of Mount Suribachi; his wound on Hill 362-A and evacuation, March 1, 1945. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello, John Chalkley |
| Physical Description | 76 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
