Here's another World War II hero who deserves to be remembered. (I hope, the nut jobs in this forum don't try to trash this hero.)
Archer resident Clair C. Chaffin died Monday, shot and killed in an apparent armed robbery outside Florence, S.C. | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL
Archer resident Clair C. Chaffin died Monday, shot and killed in an apparent armed robbery outside Florence, S.C.
Chaffin, Clif Cormier and Bob Gasche called themselves "the Iwo Trio."
The three first met through Gainesville's VFW. They represented each of the three U.S. Marine battalions that landed at Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. Allied forces suffered 27,909 casualties in the island campaign, with 6,825 killed in action.
After surviving the hell that was the Pacific campaign, Cormier said it was unthinkable that Chaffin, a medical corpsman with the 4th Marine Division, should have been shot and killed by a couple of young men who wanted his wallet.
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