WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves/Witness Iwo Jima flag raising
US WWII veteran and the last surviving airman rescued by the Dayak tribesmen in 'The Airmen and the Headhunters' story. Now lives in Friendswood, Texas with his wife Mary
WW2 Marine Iwo Jima L Company 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Division who joined in 1939 and retired in 1971 with the rank of colonel. He got the Silver and Bronze star, the Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit
WWII - PFC in the 90th Infantry Division in General Patton's army, known as 'Machine Gun Pete', who saw action in the liberation of Pilsen and western Czechoslovakia. A repeat special guest at the yearly Pilsen Liberation Festival.
Author - 'Yocona Puff Adder', received the Medal for Military Merit; National Defense Service Medal; Vietnam Service and Campaign medals; selection as Battalion Soldier of the Month in the 101st Airborne Division; and promotion to E-5 in only 18 months
Former Army Sniper during the War on Terror. 75th Ranger Regiment. He was the very first African American sniper to serve in his Battalion. Author of Way Of The Reaper and the owner of HardShoot
WWII: PTO. USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Colhoun (DD-801). Battle of The Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Doolittle Raid, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa (survived the sinking by Kamikaze of the USS Colhoun)
Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General (Born: 01/02/1917). Tank Battalion Commander in George S. Patton's Third Army. Recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Cross. Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Entered the service in 1934, was transferred from Bataan to Pearl Harbor. Stationed at Fort Shafter during the attack, Iscovitz defended the island using a machine gun
WWII - Pfc Ison, 1st Marines, shown in one of the most iconic Marines and actually WWII photograph, dashing across 'Death Valley', May 10, 1945, during the Battle Of Okinawa. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/dashes.jpg
Nobuaki 'Warren' Iwatake (born 1923) is an American citizen who was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army to serve as a radio operator and communications intercepter. Served 35 years as a translator at the American embassy
Three-time war veteran Bob Izumi though reluctant to share his past, has a very storied history worth telling, a story of service that spans WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam. Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal