Remembering Iwo Jima

By Austin Bay

Published February 25, 2015 7:56pm ET

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Remembering Iwo Jima — U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal) | JOE ROSENTHAL

From Feb. 19, 1945 (when U.S. Marines assaulted its beaches) to March 27 of that year (the day combat officially ceased), the island of Iwo Jima was hell on earth.

In 2009 I began writing occasional columns commemorating the 70th anniversary of key WWII battles and events. I dedicated them to the WWII generation. Twenty-year-old Marine vets of February 1945 are now 90, if they are still among us.

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