The above action by the Cobia prompted Iwo Jima veteran Tom Remondino and other fellow members of the Fifth Marine Division to present a certificate of thanks at this years' Cobia vets reunion in Manitowoc.
Iwo Jima veteran Tom Remondino thanks Cobia vets at reunion dinner, July 19, 1997
"Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Yama as the smoke of the battle drifts about them." Dreyfuss, Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945. (National Archives)
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