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Iwo Jima veteran shares his combat story

Elwood Hughes, a 5th Marine Division veteran, recounts his experiences during the Battle of Iwo Jima, offering a personal ...
The Advocate

Why a Lafayette family believes their son is the reincarnation of a WWII fighter pilot

Fifty-five years after a WWII pilot was shot down and died near Iwo Jima, a Lafayette boy recalled details of the event and ...
Colorado Public Radio

The Battle of Iwo Jima, through the eyes of a U.S. Marine who lived it

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo has been on stamps and posters, and was the inspiration for the Marine Corps War Memorial statue in Arlington, Va. Inside Jim Blane’s apartment in Denver, a print of ...
Colorado Public Radio

Veterans Day Special: The battle of Iwo Jima, through the eyes of a Coloradan who lived it

On Purplish, our focus is usually on exploring the politics of the moment. But for Veterans Day, we're offering something different -- a chance to experience a defining moment in World War II from one ...
KUOW

100-year-old veteran remembers the raising of the flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima

A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...
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Watch: The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later (full extended cut documentary)

It’s been 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Fitzgerald sank on the evening of Nov. 10, 1975 during a particularly rough storm on Lake Superior. There are no survivors or ...
collider

Clint Eastwood’s Revolutionary World War II Drama Featuring a Frequent Taylor Sheridan Star Marches Onto a New Streamer

Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything ...
The Advocate

99-year-old WWII vet who witnessed the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima honored at funeral

Born in 1926 in New Orleans, Charles Calvin Holdeman Jr. grew up through the Great Depression, waiting in soup lines and packing his shoes with cardboard when they wore thin. At 17, with World War II ...
Independent Record

Area Iwo Jima vets remember battle on its 60th anniversary

‘Uncommon valor was a common virtue on Iwo Jima," Adm. Chester Nimitz once said. About 100,000 Marines —many of them collegiate All-Americans — landed on the tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific ...
Task & Purpose

World War II Marine veteran reunites with tank he drove on Iwo Jima

Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...
Military Times

He was bayoneted in Guam. Shot on Iwo. Now, at 100, he is a sergeant.

Frank S. Wright being promoted from corporal to honorary sergeant on Aug. 31, 2025. (Sgt. Haley Fourmet Gustavsen/Marine Corps) At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to enlist in the U.S.