Colorado Public Radio

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

Colorado USMC veteran Jim Blane, almost 101 years old, sat down with CPR News to detail his experience in one of the most ...
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'Greatest war film you will ever see' now on Amazon Prime starring Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood's acclaimed wartime epic, Letters From Iwo Jima, is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film, which hit theaters in 2006, provides a gripping account of Japanese ...
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 ...
Stars and Stripes

Volcanic activity moves Navy’s field carrier landing practice off Iwo Jima

U.S. Navy pilots will practice carrier landings at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni due to ongoing volcanic activity on Iwo Jima, the usual field practice site, according to Japan’s Ministry of ...
The Dominion Post

‘I’m just the caretaker’: A Veterans Day remembrance of West Virginia’s Woody Williams, who was the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War II

Stay with me, Woody. That’s what Doral Lee, a big kid from Minnesota, said to Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, a little guy ...