Lillian Lundberg: And he was killed, killed in an explosion, an industrial accident. SH: You said your father became a plumber.ĭL: Right. SH: Were they from big families, your mother and father?ĭL: My mother was part of, I think it was about eight of them in the family, brothers and sisters, and my father, I guess about five or six, but they're all good-sized by today's standards. college was out for ninety-nine percent of the kids, unless you were born wealthy. SH: What were their mother and father's educational background?ĭL: My father's high school, my mother was high school, and, of course. SH: Can you tell us how your mother then grew up in Mount Jewett as well? So, I presume it merely was part of the Kent Family, and then, where are we at now? I presume, because, at that time, years ago, aristocracy was the same in all your reigning countries, they were all intermarried. married him, but she was disowned by her family, and that's one of the reasons I think they came from Sweden to the United States.ĭL: Emilia Ruth Palmquist, and her mother's name was Anna Christina, maiden name was (Kant?), like Kent. Part of the history that I've learned is that her mother was in the aristocracy in Sweden and her father was a soldier in the Army and worked on the properties around. she was born in 1894, in Goteborg, and she was sort of a large family. SH: I thought it was, but I wanted to make sure.ĭL: But. My mother's father and mother were born, and she was born, in Goteborg, Sweden.ĭL: He was Swedish, too. he was born in the United States, I know that, but I don't know too much about his background, because I got more of my mother's background, family background. SH: Can you tell us a little bit about your father and his family background?ĭL: Well, my father, I don't know too much about his family background, other than he probably grew up in Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, because his mother lived up there and father died, apparently, at an early age. I have five brothers and sisters.ĭL: One younger and four older. So, I came here when I was five months old. So, we came to Jersey City, because his brother had opened up a plumbing business, and he came to work with him in Jersey City. which closed up, and, in the small town Mount Jewett, there aren't many jobs. The reason for that is, my father worked for the tannery. When I was six months old, we moved to Jersey City. I was born in Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, it's about four hundred miles from here, and February 10, 1925. We will begin by asking you, for the record, where and when you were born.ĭonald Lundberg: Okay. Or take a look at Sergeant William Harrell: His defense of a post cost him both hands by two different grenades and even got him stabbed by a saber-wielding Japanese soldier.David Fulvio: This begins our interview with Colonel Donald Lundberg, with David Fulvio. The citations, which can be read at, are extraordinary: Like those of Pfc William Caddy and Pfc James La Belle, both of whom threw themselves on Japanese grenades to save the lives of fellow Marines. Of those, 82 were awarded to Marines throughout the entire war, 23 of them for gallantry in action during the battle of Iwo Jima alone. military personnel who "distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action." The Medal has been awarded over 3,400 times since then, including 464 during World War II. The Medal of Honor dates back to an 1861Senate bill signed into law by President Lincoln authorizing “medals of honor” to be produced and distributed to those U.S. Marines in WWII The first thing you didn't know about the Battle of Iwo Jima is just what it means to the identity of the U.S. To those who fought there, and to some historians, the battle bears equal significance to that given to Gettysburg by Abraham Lincoln.Īs both countries acknowledge the 65th anniversary of this pivotal battle, we present five things you didn't know about the battle of Iwo Jima.ġ- The Battle of Iwo Jima accounted for 1/3 of all Medal of Honor awards for U.S. Today, however, it is hallowed ground, a place that defines the United States Marines Corps, one that became the subject of an iconic Pulitzer-Prize winning photograph and countless fictional depictions. Growing up in the 1930s, how many American kids even knew about the eight square miles of volcanic Pacific island known (then) as Iwo To? Surely none of the almost 7,000 Allied forces to die there in 1945 had even heard of it. Waterloo, Antietam, Khe Sanh, Iwo Jima: These are the kinds of locales that would have no real business occupying space in any history book were it not for the day (or days) when two armies collided there, to the greater glory of one and the dishonor of the other. Of 2 "This is like fighting on a pool table." - 1st Lt Raoul J Archambault, K Co, 3/21
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