These are the words of PhM1c Ferney E. Train, the man who headed the collection section that young John Darley was attached to on Iwo Jima.
There were other flattering words used to describe John Fletcher Darley, as well. These came posthumously, from the President of the United States, via Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal:
“For heroic service as a hospital corpsman attached to a collecting section of Company ‘A’, 4th Medical Battalion, 4th Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, on February 19, 1945. Insisting that he must remain to help care for the many wounded on the beach after he had been struck in the left arm by shrapnel, Darley braved intense mortar and artillery barrages to move among the stricken men and render every possible medical aid. His courageous and unyielding efforts, maintained unhesitatingly and without cessation until he was mortally wounded by an exploding mortar shell was directly responsible for the saving of numerous lives which otherwise might have been lost and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.”