Col Severance’s battalion was assigned to secure the mountain top of Mount Suribachi. The island was defended by 21,000 Japanese troops because of which the marines suffered heavy casualties. The effort to take control of the island was to secure a base for American fighter planes. He was one of the 70,000 marines who tried to gain control of Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 750 miles from Japan’s mainland, during the war in 1945. Col Severance, who commanded the Easy Company of the 28th Marine Regiment during the war, is survived by two daughters Nina Cohen and Lynn Severance, two sons, Dave Jr and Mike, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.Ĭol Severance served in the marines for three decades and held the rank of Captain during the Second World War.
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