Quote of the day
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.
Philip Shuttleworth
Born: February 9, 1782
Died: January 7, 1842 (aged 59)
Bio: Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth was an English churchman and academic, Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1822 and Bishop of Chichester.