On Feb. 19, 1945, 20-year-old Bill Young of Mooresville, North Carolina, disembarked from an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on a miserable hunk of black rock called Iwo Jima. He was part of a 75-mile-long convoy of ships preparing to dislodge the Japanese from this volcanic remnant of an island. The …
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