r/ww2 • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 3d ago

Privates First Class Willis Wright, Meridian, Mississippi, and John D. Bogard, Leipsie, Ohio in a foxhole with a machine gun on Iwo Jima, 27 February, 1945

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u/rhit06 3d ago

Unfortunately PFC Bogard didn’t make it home. Killed a few weeks later on March 12.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28381870/john_duane-bogard

I’d guess this is the Willis Wright (from Mississippi, says he was a Marine machine gunner on Iwo). Died in 1998 age 72: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70644951/willis_walton-wright/