Lou Szabo

U.S. Marine Corps

1944 - 1946

World War II

  Pacific Theater - Iwo Jima 

Lou wanted to join the Navy and his two neighborhood friends "suckered" him into the Marine Corps with them.  All ended up on Iwo Jima in the Pacific.  Lou was a machine gunner and survived Iwo, but his two friends were killed in this horrendous battle for a very strategic island.  Lou was a witness to the historic flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima.  He was honorably discharged June 19, 1946.  He and his wife, Ann, lived in the Carriage Homes.

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