COMBAT on IWO JIMA with a WWII MARINE | Don Graves

[Chevy 2 65]

Amazing to hear this story.


View: https://youtu.be/QOhxY48oQ94

 

[kingfisher]

Amazing to hear this story.


View: https://youtu.be/QOhxY48oQ94

Excellent.

If anyone can watch this through and keep dry eyes, you have no heart.

 

[Skysoldier]

The Greatest Generation.

I remember coming home from Vietnam and being in a VFW and told my "war" wasn't shit!

And they were absolutely right......

 

[240Geezer]

Numbers from WWII.

Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.

www.nationalww2museum.org

 

[2/1Marine]

The Greatest Generation.

I remember coming home from Vietnam and being in a VFW and told my "war" wasn't shit!

And they were absolutely right......

I sit and think what I did in Iraq and during the GWOT and it just doesn't scale to WWI and WWII. Very different kinds of wars.

 

[nstassel]

18 out of 300 left the island. Incredible bravery.

 

[Rockrivr1]

Takes a special kind of nerves to hump through a war zone with a bomb strapped to your back.

 

[In God We Trust]

I sit and think what I did in Iraq and during the GWOT and it just doesn't scale to WWI and WWII. Very different kinds of wars.

Don’t be too hard on yourself. I stood at a checkpoint stateside waving in cars for 2 years.