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Ira Taylor Sibley Jr.

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Ira Taylor Sibley Jr.

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28 Apr 2000 (aged 80)
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Owens Cross Roads, Madison County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Ira Taylor Sibley, Jr. was wounded as a medic on Iwo Jima. He survived, the first few days, but he said that standing in the surf, he didn't have a chance as he could not move due to the dead American bodies in the water. He was awarded the Purple Heart. We took him off a hospital train at the Huntsville Railroad Station and carried him on an army gurney through the streets of Huntsville to his parents house on Clinton Ave where the VBCC stands today. He was treated there until he recovered enough to move around.
(Biography courtesy of R.B. French)
Ira Taylor Sibley, Jr. was wounded as a medic on Iwo Jima. He survived, the first few days, but he said that standing in the surf, he didn't have a chance as he could not move due to the dead American bodies in the water. He was awarded the Purple Heart. We took him off a hospital train at the Huntsville Railroad Station and carried him on an army gurney through the streets of Huntsville to his parents house on Clinton Ave where the VBCC stands today. He was treated there until he recovered enough to move around.
(Biography courtesy of R.B. French)

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