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Offline ozrocker

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Iwo Jima
« on: February 19, 2014, 05:02:43 PM »
Feb 19 1945- Battle of Iwo Jima began.

 :salute To the ones who fought and the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice.

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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2014, 05:31:07 PM »
Couldn't imagine the hell of that island. :salute
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2014, 05:39:13 PM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2014, 05:53:28 PM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2014, 06:08:59 PM »

My Dad was a LCVP coxswain. Carried a lot of Marines ashore.
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2014, 06:17:46 PM »
My uncle was one of the Marines. He was never the same once he came back from there.

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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2014, 06:56:08 PM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2014, 08:39:36 PM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2014, 10:14:51 PM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2014, 08:57:00 AM »
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Re: Iwo Jima
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2014, 09:21:24 AM »
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