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JOSEPH MONTI
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
02-17-2005

Iwo Jima: 'Welcome to Hell'
By JOSEPH MONTI
Date: 02-17-2005, Thursday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions

LET US PAUSE and recall the 60th Anniversary of one of the greatest battles of World War II, which was the most brutal global conflict in the history of mankind: the invasion of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. It best exemplifies U.S. Marine Corps valor.

That eight-square-mile Pacific island was the site of the most hellacious inferno of human carnage in the history of battle for 36 bloody days.

Those brave Marines entered into a ...

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