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SUMMARY:Honor Mission Escort WWII Iwo Jima & Korean War Robert Scullin
DESCRIPTION:Iwo Jima Marine Veteran\, Bob Scullin\, from Pennsauken\, NJ pa
 ssed away on Feb 3rd. He served two enlistments in the USMC during WWII an
 d Korean War and was wounded in action.\n\nDate: Thursday\, February 15\, 
 2017\nRally Location: Eichel Funeral Home\, 8323 Maple Ave.\, Pennsauken\,
  NJ\nRally Time: 9:30am. Flag Line in place by 9:45am. (Viewing 10-11a\, S
 ervice 11am). (For those that cant do flag line\, be at funeral home by 10
 :50 to join in the motorcycle escort to cemetery)\nMotorcycle Escort: Imme
 diately following service\, leave Eichel Funeral Home\, 8323 Maple Ave\, P
 ennsauken\, NJ 08109 and proceed to Locustwood Cemetery\, Rt 70\, Cherry H
 ill\, NJ.\nWWII Iwo Jima Marine Veteran\, Bob Scullin\, from Pennsauken\, 
 NJ passed away on Feb 3rd. He served two enlistments in the USMC during WW
 II and Korean War and was wounded in action. Read article about Bob’s se
 rvice from the Philadelphia Inquirer below\;\n\nThe nightmares linger\n67 
 years later\, the carnage of Iwo Jima remains fresh for N.J. Marine.\nBy E
 dward Colimore\, Inquirer Staff Writer - February 19\, 2012\nSixty-seven y
 ears later\, he still has dreams of that dark\, volcanic island - and the 
 unimaginable horrors he witnessed there.\n\nHe recalls a friend shot throu
 gh the head\, an American flag fluttering atop a mountain\, and the sharp 
 sting of a bullet passing through his jaw.\n\nPvt. Bob Scullin was 19 when
  he landed on Feb. 19\, 1945\, with tens of thousands of other Marines on 
 Iwo Jima\, whose very name conjures images of ferocious combat.\nTwenty-se
 ven service members - 22 Marines and five Navy seamen - received the Medal
  of Honor for their actions during a two-month battle that claimed the liv
 es of 4\,590 Americans and more than 20\,000 Japanese.\n\n"I think about i
 t all the time\," Scullin\, 86\, of Pennsauken\, said. "Sometimes\, I have
  dreams about it."\n\nIn a landing craft splashing through the waves towar
 d the Japanese island\, "we didn't know what was going to happen\," he sai
 d. "It was scary.\n\n"We tried to encourage each other\, saying\, 'You're 
 going to make it! You're going to make it!' "\nA member of the 27th Marine
 s\, Fifth Division\, in the first wave\, Scullin was toting an M-1 rifle a
 nd 60 pounds of mortar shells tucked in a vest. He and others who followed
  in the second wave were greeted by an eerie silence when they hit the bea
 ch.\n\n"The third wave is when we caught it\," Scullin said solemnly.\n\nT
 he defenders let loose with artillery\, mortar\, and machine gun and small
  arms fire just when the beach was most crowded with Marines and their equ
 ipment.\n\n"You tried to hide by digging a foxhole\, but it would just fil
 l up" because of the volcanic ash\, he said. "A lot of people were shot.\n
 \n"A friend of mine in the mortar platoon was shot through the head\," he 
 said. "They [Japanese] had every square inch of the island covered" with f
 ire.\n\nThe Marines had to move out.\n\n"We were only on the beach a coupl
 e hours before we went further inland\," Scullin said. "We were sup-posed 
 to cut off Mount Suribachi from the rest of the island."\n\nUsing a coffee
  cup to represent Suribachi\, he described how his mortar platoon followed
  the infantry past the mountain toward an airstrip the United States hoped
  to eventually use to bomb the Japanese home-land.\n\nThe goal along the w
 ay?\n\n"Kill Japanese\," he said with a shrug.\n\nThe Marines took heavy l
 osses. One of the casualties was a fellow New Jerseyan\, Gunnery Sgt. John
  Basilone of Raritan\, who had received a Medal of Honor for his actions a
 t Guadalcanal.\nBasilone was helping others take an airstrip on the first 
 day of the battle when he was killed by mortar shrapnel. He was posthumous
 ly awarded the Navy Cross.\n\nFour days later\, the American flag was rais
 ed over the 545-foot Mount Suribachi. Five Marines and a Navy corpsman rep
 laced it with a larger\, more visible flag. That moment was immortalized i
 n Joe Rosenthal's Pu-litzer Prize-winning photograph\, the iconic\, heavil
 y reproduced image of the battle.\n\n"I didn't see it when it first went u
 p\, but I did see it later\," Scullin said.\n\nIt was an encouraging sight
 \, but but the Marines still had most of the fighting ahead of them.\nAt n
 ight\, he and comrades kept their chatter to a minimum. "You didn't want t
 o attract enemy fire\," he said. "We'd fire at the Japs and knew we hit th
 em but wouldn't find their bodies the next day."\n\nThey had been taken in
 to the Japanese forces' elaborate\, fortified cave system - miles of under
 ground tunnels linking hundreds of bunkers and blockhouses.\nWe were scare
 d all the time . . . every time we heard comrades were shot\," Scullin sai
 d. "A first lieutenant was shot through the neck and it shook us up. You j
 ust didn't know if you'd get shot or not."\n\nOn March 3\, he was sitting 
 on a ledge of volcanic rock near two fellow Marines when a Japanese sniper
  targeted him. He pointed to a spot on a table and used salt and pepper sh
 akers to show where his friends where. Then his hands moved to his jaw whe
 re the bullet struck.\n\n"When I was shot\, I put my hands on my face and 
 they [comrades] pulled me back from the ledge\," Scullin said. "I heard th
 em calling for a corpsman and was taken away on a stretcher.\n"I gave them
  a thumbs-up\, but I don't remember being on the beach or getting on a boa
 t."\n\nThe battle continued until March 17\, but it had ended for Scullin\
 , who was treated first on a hospital ship\, then transferred to hospitals
  in Honolulu\, San Francisco\, and Providence\, R.I. "I didn't open my mou
 th for five months\," said Scullin\, who underwent numerous surgeries. "I 
 joined the 52-20 club - 52 weeks\, $20 a week disability pay."\n\nAt home 
 with his parents later\, he got up from his sleep one night and began pull
 ing the bureau drawers in and out as though operating an antiaircraft gun.
  "I was dreaming\," he said.\n\n"My mother heard me and came to check."\n\
 nScullin was discharged in 1946\, worked in the maintenance department of 
 the Pennsauken school system\, rejoined the Marines in 1949\, and left aga
 in in 1953. He later worked in the maintenance departments at RCA\, Cooper
  Hospital\, and Campbell Soup in Camden before retiring in 1990.\n\n"But I
  often think about Iwo - especially in February\," he said\n\nRobert W. Sc
 ullin\, age 91\, of Pennsauken\, on Friday\, February 3\, 2017. Survived b
 y nieces and nephews: William Tock\, Jr. (Diania)\, David (Joanne) Tock\, 
 Walter H. Scullin\, Jr. (Penny)\, Jerry Dean Scullin\, Mary (Paul) Giordan
 o\, Nancy (George) Galyon\, and Linda Krieck.\n\nRobert proudly served two
  enlistments in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and Korean War. 
 He was active in Marine Corps League Garden State Det. #1273 and a life me
 mber of VFW Post 15031 and Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter #26.
 \n\nRelatives and friends are invited to attend Wednesday evening\, Februa
 ry 15 6-9PM and Thursday morning\, February 16 10-11AM at EICHEL FUNERAL H
 OME\, 8323 MAPLE AVENUE\, PENNSAUKEN\, NJ 08109. Funeral service 11AM. Int
 erment immediately following in Locustwood Memorial Park\, Cherry Hill.
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