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At first a boat engineer, Scharfe became a coxswain, or boat operator, and was piloting an LST - landing ship tank - loaded with 36 Marines in the ship-packed waters off of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945.
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Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...
So, the fact Iwo Jima had a landing strip on it was important for that reason, as well as serving as a base for the projected attack on Tokyo.” But the victory came at a tremendous cost to the Marines ...
One of his great-grandfather’s stories — about landing on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 — still sticks with him. The Marines were under so much gunfire that, as Justice recalled, “all you had ...
Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be ...
Following a 23-year U.S. occupation, Iwo Jima was returned to Japan in 1968 as part of the Ogasawara island group, but it is now home to only 380 service members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense ...
IWO-TO, Japan — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles.