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The Battle of Iwo Jima began 80 years ago. Listen to recordings from the frontlines
The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...
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Father wrote of Iwo Jima’s horrors in letters to family
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 ...
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This Marine endured five amphibious assaults - and survived Iwo Jima
Harris and his men later went ashore on Iwo Jima, experiencing several close calls ... Harris was back in Maui when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug ...
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That iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima? CU prof, then a Marine, saw it happen
“Capturing Iwo Jima had immediate consequences for the approach to Japan ... when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “When the bomb dropped, we all thought it was a ...
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Military historian Mat McLachlan on the Bombing of Darwin, Iwo Jima anniversary
The famous photograph showing a group of US Marines raising the US flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It was February 19, 1945 – precisely three years after the Bombing of Darwin – that ...
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The Battle of Iwo Jima began 80 years ago. Listen to recordings from the frontlines
Staff Sergeant Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us ...
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This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima
Marines land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 ... Harris was back in Maui when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Sitting in a dental chair, he ...