By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Bio: Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe was born in New Jersey, spent most of her youth and young adult life in Massachusetts, and later moved out West to California with her husband Fayette Clapp.
