A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day commemoration event in France. Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on ...
Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...
At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans ... sent to take the porkchop-shaped island of Iwo Jima in February 1945. The Japanese were using the ...
A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on Iwo Jima," Henry Diedrich recalled of that February ...
and "Letters From Iwo Jima," starring Ken Watanabe. He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek. He separates fact from fiction in Michael Bay ...