Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off mainland defenses to incoming B-29 raids, and establish an emergency landing ...
BOYNTON BEACH — Like many combat veterans, Greg "Doc" Emery gives the same answer when he's asked if he thinks about the buddies he lost. "Every day." Two years later, he watched the "stirring" site ...
Virginia Beach, Va. (WTKR) - Veterans of the 5th Marine Division who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima are in Virginia Beach this weekend to mark their 66th reunion. Marines and their families began ...
Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of ...
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The toughest bravest marine at Iwo Jima - John Basilone
A Marine pressed his face into the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, knowing that lifting his head would draw the fire of the reinforced blockhouse cutting the beach to pieces. Around him, wrecked gear ...
CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) -- Two heroes who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima were honored Saturday during a special 75th-anniversary ceremony. Aboard the Battleship New Jersey along a calm Delaware River, it ...
When the auction bids stalled at $950,000, Laura Dietz shouted. “YES,” she said after staying up all night to monitor the bids on the Internet in her Newport Beach home. She didn’t have enough money ...
IWO JIMA, Japan — Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert Van Camp carried a small American flag in his pocket as he led a 4th Marine Division mortar section inland from Blue Beach during the February 1945 Battle ...
Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...
Pebble Beach >> America lost another World War II veteran recently when John Torchia, the former Marine medic who was at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was one of two surviving members of his unit, died ...
The Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire is one of the most seismically unstable regions in the world. Dotted with towering volcanoes and consistently troubled by earthquakes, it’s also the birthplace of an ...
Pebble Beach >> Friday was an especially good day for John Torchia. Not only was it the anniversary of when the Continental Marines were established in 1775, but it was also the 92nd birthday of the ...
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