75th Anniversary of The Battle of Iwo Jima
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/ iwo jima-stinger-2 today marks the 75th anniversary of the battle of iwo jima.
And kimt news three's maleeha kamal visited with a man who was at the front line today in austin.xxx on the scene iwo jima-llpkg-1 iwo jima-llpkg-9 18 year old erwin strommer fought in the battle of iw0 jima.
The 94 year old austin man took me back in history and shares his experience with me.
Lowerthird2line:anniversary of battle of iwo jima austin, mn nats: what date does it say here?
February 19, 1945 ...yea...so 75 years ago.
Strommer is talking about the battle of iwo jima....when the united states military landed on and captured the island of the same name from the imperial japanese army during world war ii.
The 94 year old man remembers his mission vividly.
In fact he says his encounter with japanese suicide fighters still haunts him to this day.
Nats:"as his plane went over us crashing into the water.
I could see his helmet the straps of that leather helmet i'm sure it was leather and the goggles.
I see it at night.
For five weeks he and other u-s troops endured a bloody battle.
Nats: "it was terrible i lost a lot of friends there."
Strommer himself nearly escaped death multiple times.
Iwo jima-llpkg-7 "i stood where i was standing and the shell would have hit me right in the shoulder."
Iwo jima-llpkg-11 images seen in history books erwin has some of the original.
You probably recognize this image... at the end of the battle - the marines hiked up mount suribachi to place an american flag on japanese territory.
But strommer wants to remind people - it wasn't as smooth as the picture shows.
The famous picture was a redo.
Nats: "this one is going up and this flag is coming down."
Iwo jima-llpkg-10 look live: in austin maleeha kamal kimt news three.
The island was finally declared secured on march 26th 19-45.
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