Leighton Willhite was a 19-year-old Marine corporal when he landed on Iwo Jima in 1945 as part of the battle’s opening ...
Leonardo DiCaprio's massively beloved One Battle After Another has overtaken Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima at the ...
Marine veteran Leighton Willhite, 100, visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in August to see the tank he drove at Iwo Jima for the first time since World War II. Marine ...
More than 100 local veterans flew to Washington on Wednesday as part of the biannual Triad Honor Flight. The flight left Piedmont Triad International Airport early in the morning and returned around ...
The POW/MIA branch of the Navy Casualty Office recently announced that Indiana native Delbert Martin, who died in aerial ...
A special dedication took place in South Wheeling on Thursday when the Military Banner Program in Wheeling honored PFC John Habak, a U.S. Marine who was killed in action on the Pacific island of Iwo ...
A memorial plaque to Marines who fought on Iwo Jima recently left Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on its way to the Marine ...
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How the Battle of Iwo Jima Became 36 Days of Hell
In the spring of 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima unfolded as one of the Pacific War’s most brutal clashes, pitting U.S. Marines and Navy forces against the entrenched Imperial Japanese Army. Over five ...
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Larimer County honors WWII veteran Jack Thurman’s 100th birthday
Sgt. John “Jack” Thurman was born Sept. 27, 1925. On Sept. 27, 1943, his 18th birthday, he joined the Marine Corps. And on ...
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The Devastating Hit That Turned a WW2 Ship into a New Monster
In the waning months of World War 2, USS Canberra was thrust into the Pacific’s violent theater of war. Newly commissioned, she navigated into the maelstrom of battle late, but her participation would ...
BILLINGS (LEE)— A salute will be held in Billings today to honor the last member of the Marines’ World War II-era Company E, 2nd Battalion - one of the groups of men who fought on Iwo Jima and took ...
With his two brothers quite a bit older, he was the only one of the Dinsmore siblings to serve in World War II. In San Diego, Dinsmore was assigned to the 2nd Armored Amphibian Battalion. It was a ...
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