Found Bullet in IwoJima Sand

[LexLooter]

During moving I had a jar of Iwo Jima sand break. As I was transferring the sand into a new container a bullet clogged up my funnel. Looks like I accidently brought home a piece of Garand food off that beach.

Lined up next to a M2, 7.7 and 6.5 mm Jap. Looks to be an unfired round where the rest corroded away. Posted this in a Garand FB group and thought you guys would think it interesting too!

 

[NirvanaFan]

That is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Criticalt]

Very cool

 

[Bananabandit]

Thats awesome.

 

[tirwin1]

A genuine piece of history!

 

[Celt]

Wow, thats crazy. You have real history there to pass on to your kids.

 

[SigSweet]

That is awesome, thank you for sharing and thank you for your service

 

[Airborneguy]

Amazing. That's some find. And you'd have never known had that jar not broken.

 

[Cleck]

Nice, I love old war finds.

 

[Defilade]

I'm sure there was a lot more where that came from. One of the Bloodiest Battles in WWII. Very cool piece of History.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Very cool! Interesting piece of history!

My dad was a Navigator who flew 25 missions over Japan in a B-29, and was almost shot down during the March 5, 1945 night raid on Tokyo. One engine shot out, and 68 holes in the fuselage. They were forced to make an emergency landing on Iwo Jima, which was very shortly after the Marines had taken the first of the two airfields (over 2200 B-29's and their 11 man crews were saved by making emergency landings there between the end of February and August 1945) as they were too shot up to make it back to Guam. They were about to ditch when they finally caught sight of Mt. Suribachi through the clouds, and made it in.

He said when they landed, the Marines told them to get under cover in a trench and stay down as Japanese snipers were still very active. He said there were Japanese soldiers bodies stacked up everywhere, and place absolutely reeked from the bodies. He always said how grateful the B-29 crews were that the Marines took Iwo Jima, when I got him to talk about it, - which was very seldom.

 

[togmaster]

Awesome find.

 

[thegatman]

Very cool and a great find.

 

[Saltwater60]

That's a very cool story. Thank god for men like that. These people now a days don't know how good they have it. I always say it will be a very sad day when the last of the WWII vets pass.

The bullet is awesome. It's cool that you just grabbed the sand with knowing it's there and just happened to find it.

 

[FN FAL]

Cool. I brought back a US .50 bullet and Jap 6.5 from Tarawa that I donated to the local arms museum.

 

[kgun12]

Wow, very cool!

 

[Deplorable Me]

Neat story.