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Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on ...
AFTER THE BATTLE In that span at the end of the war, he witnessed more history at Iwo Jima and learned about a catastrophic new bomb. On Aug. 5, 1945, the day before the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the ...
Naval aviators kicked off carrier-landing practice on Iwo Jima as the USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment ...
Philadelphia, Pa -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time," he said ...