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No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...
SAN ANTONIO — Nearly eight decades after U.S. Marines raised the flag at Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, five of them reunited at San Antonio's Menger Hotel to reconnect ...
Daniel Penny was honored Wednesday by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day in Boston — where ... But time — the undefeated killer — has left only a few veterans able to attend such ...
Editor's note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran ... in the tank battalion was ...
Robert Persichitti, pictured attending an Iwo Jima reunion in Japan in 2019 Credit: Mark Gibson/US Marine Corps Mr Persichitti ... the fullest and he left his tank empty.” ...
Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.