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Show I Japs and Weather jTough Combination i (By Sergeant Jack Vincent, a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent). Correspond-ent). "I don't know which was worse the weat'Ar or Jap barrages," I said Marine Corporal Lioyd J. ' Pettey, of Draper, Utah, who i helped bring supplies ashore on the second day of the invasion of Iwo. Petty and his comrades, all ' members of an amphibian tractor I battalion, ran into difficulties ' when a minor storm broke loose. I Winds helped sea traffic churn 'the waters offshore into a fioth, 1 it looked moee like a November rain storm on the Atlantic than 1 the supposedly blue and calm I Pacific. I Despite the wet and hazardous job, Petty and his companions kept the supplies moving to their Marine comrades on the beach. Pettey, a Fourth Marine Div-ision Div-ision veteran of the Saipan and Tinian campaigns, said it was ' the worst weather he had ever encountered. The 24-year-old I Leatherneck is the son of Mr. land Mrs. Lloyd E. Petty, of Diap-' Diap-' er. I jO |
