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Easy Company's boss was Captain Dave Severance, a tall, lean Wisconsin native; a ramrod Marine of exceptional judgment who had shown his mettle in battle, who expressed his authority through calm understatement and unflinching example.†
Chpt 5.
"They'd learn 'fire and movement,' " Dave Severance reminisced to me.†
Chpt 5. *
He rode the boy hard, pointing out every screwup, making him the butt of his jokes and ridicule, until Captain Severance finally noticed the problem and reassigned the boy as a runner, a messenger reporting to headquarters.†
Chpt 5.
Captain Dave Severance had first seen the maps a month before in the conference room at Camp Tarawa.†
Chpt 6.
Severance's thoughts reeled back through military history.†
Chpt 6.
And a few weeks before leaving for Iwo Jima, Captain Dave Severance tries to recommend Mike for the rank of Platoon Sergeant.†
Chpt 6.
Shortly after the bombardment erupted, Harry the Horse summoned Easy Company Captain Dave Severance and ordered him to stand by: "Are you ready to move out?"†
Chpt 7.
Severance replied.†
Chpt 7.
In the opening moments of Japanese mortar fire, when the boys of Easy Company were still groping their way toward Captain Severance's main unit, Lloyd Thompson looked up to his right and could not believe what he saw.†
Chpt 7.
Having made his point, Mike was soon shepherding his boys across the sands to their rendezvous with Dave Severance's unit.†
Chpt 7.
Captain Severance committed Easy's 1st Platoon to the attack early in the day.†
Chpt 8.
Dave Severance's boys would have to rush across two hundred yards of open terrain toward the mountain's base, with very little cover of any kind.†
Chpt 9.
This action—so heroic that two sergeants and Captain Severance came forward to report it—earned him his Navy Cross, an honor he never mentioned to our family.†
Chpt 9.
Dave Severance's boys had penetrated past some active Japanese units, and spent the night isolated from the battalion.†
Chpt 9.
Dave Severance set his command post as close as possible to the mountain, so that he would have a line of sight up its flank.†
Chpt 9.
As the ships began tattooing the volcano's flanks with 40mm shells, Captain Severance moved his command post back thirty yards to the water's edge, for a better view of the volcano's slopes.†
Chpt 9.
"The Navy sent their carrier bombers in to bomb the volcano," as Captain Severance recalled it.†
Chpt 10.
Severance ordered red flares fired to warn the bombers off.†
Chpt 10.
Desperate for relief, Severance put in a call to Harry the Horse himself, on the colonel's private radio frequency.†
Chpt 10.
Lieutenant Colonel Johnson ordered Severance to reorganize and resupply his unit.†
Chpt 10.
He cranked it to full battery power and yelled an order through the fuzzy wires to Dave Severance, who was bivouacked with Easy Company, still hugging the rocks on the southeastern point: "Send me a platoon!"†
Chpt 11.
Severance surveyed his troops.†
Chpt 11.
So Severance chose the survivors of the 3rd (Doc's platoon), the closest to Colonel Johnson's command post, to become the first American platoon to climb the mountain.†
Chpt 11.
The ranks of the 3rd had been shredded by combat, so Severance augmented the platoon with twelve men from his Machine Gun Platoon, and several 60mm-mortar section men.†
Chpt 11.
Harry the Horse Liversedge himself picked the leader: First Lieutenant H. "George" Schrier, Severance's executive officer.†
Chpt 11.
Dave Severance never forgot the wording of that command.†
Chpt 11.
"I thought I was sending them to their deaths," Dave Severance would later admit to me.†
Chpt 11.
He rang up Dave Severance at Easy Company and ordered a detail to reel out a phone wire.†
Chpt 11.
Severance ordered Mike, Harlon, Ira, and Franklin to the battalion command post to tie in a telephone wire that the fire team would then unreel up the mountain.†
Chpt 11.
Dave Severance, hardly an officer given to panic, recalled one especially severe barrage.†
Chpt 12.
Captain Severance took Easy Company back south, toward Suribachi.†
Chpt 13.
The gesture was pure Severance: one minute the stern, unflappable field leader, dispensing intelligent, low-key orders under heavy fire; the next, a sensitive a nd thoughtful shepherd of his boys, in the same mold as Mike Strank.†
Chpt 13.
Dave Severance would be awarded a Silver Star for his masterful guidance of Easy Company throughout the Iwo Jima invasion.†
Chpt 13.
The next day on Iwo my father's actions once again caught the eye of Dave Severance.†
Chpt 13.
Severance, in his report recommending my father's Navy Cross, wrote what happened next: "As a second attack was launched, Bradley ran forward under the covering fire of the attacking platoon, rushed to the side of the casualty and remained there in the midst of the enemy's tremendous volume of defensive fire until he had verified that the man had died of his wounds."†
Chpt 13.
Dave Severance would later write, in his report on Doc, that "I observed him repeatedly running to any sector of the company zone of action to render first aid," and that "it would be hard to estimate the number of lives he saved by his prompt and skillful administration of medical aid, carried out with complete disregard for his own safety, nor to fully express how stimulating his devotion to duty was to the morale of those who served with him and were treated by him."†
Chpt 13.
Amidst all his command duties, Captain Dave Severance of Easy Company began to receive some relayed requests that at first only annoyed and distracted him: Could he please provide the names of the Marines in The Photograph?†
Chpt 13.
"I must confess, I shared little interest in the subject at the time," Severance told me.†
Chpt 13.
The next day, Frank Crowe looked on as two surviving platoon leaders met anxiously with Dave Severance.†
Chpt 13.
Sometime later, Severance learned the bad news about a corporal in his platoon, one Dave Bowman, whose wife also was expecting.†
Chpt 13.
This was too much for Severance.†
Chpt 13.
On March 26, Captain Severance led his 50 survivors on a tour of the newly dedicated 5th Division cemetery.†
Chpt 13.
When I asked Severance, many years later, exactly how it finally ended, he thought for a moment and then replied: "We had all the real estate."†
Chpt 13.
Severance was the only one of six Easy Company officers to walk off the island.†
Chpt 13.
Dave Severance became the catalyst for these reconnections.†
Chpt 20.
To Dave Severance, his old company commander, Doc confided: "I am not progressing as I should.†
Chpt 20.

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(1) (severance as in: severance pay)
pay and potentially other benefits given to an employee whose job is eliminated
(2) (severance as in: severance of the relationship)
the act of cutting off or ending a connection
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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