WI: Basilone Dies Before Saving Iwo Jima?

What if John Basilone, credited for getting the marines breaking through in Iwo Jima, failed to get through and was killed? Would our forces have been pushed off Iwo Jima?
 

CalBear

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Who credited him with this?

He was a remarkably brave, perhaps TOO brave, Marine, but responsible for taking the island?

Don't think so.
 
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