Tony Stein

Tony Stein

On the first day if the assault on Iwo Jima, Stein cleared multiple enemy pillboxes using his custom M1919 machine gun named "Stinger." During the assault, he made a total of 8 trips back to the beach to reload on ammunition and carried a wounded soldier on his back each trip.

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