John Irwin

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And so they they were actually fired upon as they landed Iwo Jima.

The pilot of the plane and that colonel wrote the citation for the Congressional Medal of Honor that night.

Normally it takes about a year.

It's like a trial to say does this act merit above and beyond the call of duty.

What was his name?

Uh Redder when the Henry Eugene or when they call him Redderwin.

And uh as my granddad.

And and basically they um

So they wake LeMay up at five in the morning on Guam, which is its own act of courage.

He was so moved by what he read that he used his abrasiveness to get it to Washington.

Well, all this happened the day FDR died.

So it's Truman's first day in office.

Oh man.

Truman ha w said basically, I'd rather have the Congressional Medal of Honor than be president of the United States.

So here comes this first day in office, here comes this hero in the Pacific, this guy that threw the spawn.

And he gets it through Congress in one day, which is never because they all thought he was gonna die.

It never happened before.

So then it's like you were gonna give the medal of honor posthumously to this guy.

And um LeMay says, No, I wanna pin a Medal of Honor on this kid's neck.

Well there's only one medal of honor in the Pacific.

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