Arvy Albin Geurin, author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance, graduating from San Diego Naval Training Station
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Radioman Arvy Albin Geurin on the U.S.S. Napa.  APA 147.  Author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance, Geurin served the entire war on the U.S.S. Napa and then ended up on  bloody beaches of Iwo Jima in February 1945.
The famous flag rasing picture taken by Joe Rosenthal on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima.  Arvy Geurin, author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance, was on the beaches of Iwo Jima and survived.
Landing craft storm the beaches of Iwo Jima on February 19, 2945.  Arvy Geuring served as a Radioman on the beaches of Iwo Jima and was near the famous flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.
The U.S.S. Napa 157 which was the home of Arvy Geurin during World War II.  He is author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance.
U.S.S. Napa APA 157, Arvy Geurin's WWII Home
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Captain F. Kent Loomis of the U.S.S. Napa, which Arvy Geurin served on during World War II and the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Arvy Geurin, author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance, in a fox hole on the bloody beaches of Iwo Jima.
Click to Enlarge: Arvy Geurin in a fox hole on one of the most dangerous
beaches in the history of warfare.  The volcanic sands of Iwo Jima provided
a killing ground for the well entrenched and fight to the death Japanese
soldiers.  Radioman Arvy Albin Geurin can be seen in the circle with
Seaman
First Class Don Wood
and Signalman Second Class Jack Kapp.   Jack was
Arvy's best friend throughout the war.  Notice how everyone in this picture
is taking cover.
Arvy Geurin on the Bloody
Beaches of Iwo Jima
"After I read this book, I realized how much history
I had absorbed and how the author took me right
there with him so I could 'see' history unfold.  This
is more than about Iwo Jima.  I am a school counselor.
This is the type of book that could, and should, be
used in teaching history of this era because its an
easy read that makes history alive, instead of dry
numbers and statistics "  Beth O.
A burial at sea off Iwo Jima, FIC Anthony Morrone who died of wounds from a machine gun on the beach landing at Iwo Jima.  His shipmate Arvy Geurin is the author of Walking Through Fire: An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance
A rare photograph of the two flags being raised on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima when Joe Rosenthal snapped his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph.
Two Flags on Mt. Suribachi
Captain F. Kent Loomis
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Click to Enlarge: A burial at sea off the U.S.S.
Napa, APA 157 as Fireman First Class Anthony
Morrone.  He died of machine gun wounds
received during the landings on Iwo Jima.  
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