World War 2 Veteran Story
My great uncle shared some stories about world war 2. He experienced combat on Iwo Jima. He provided suppressing fire for the guys that hauled the flag up to be raised at the historic flag raising. He also talked about shooting down kamikaze planes that were trying to take down his boat stationed in the waters around Iwo Jima. By the way, I captured this footage with my new canon 5d mark 2. I had to downsize the video to 720p. The source footage is very nice at 1080p, but downsizing takes a …
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Awesome
Comment by efanDank — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
lol i like his mustache
Comment by justin5885 — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Real World Hero , What did he navy ? airborne and which company he was in
Comment by Distancian — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Hero.
Comment by MrFrankBullitt — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
I have a 85 year old world war 2 vet as my History teacher, doesn’t really like to talk about much of his experiences.
Comment by rockoownz — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
thank you for filming this man’s (your great uncle’s) real story. I’m certain he has more than just war/battle stories though. It would be wonderful to hear those too : )
Comment by gaiagale — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
More people should hear his story.
WW2 military men and women are the greatest people I’ve ever met.
Comment by vivre909 — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
dude i respect ur uncle much much respect ur great uncle is a true g
Comment by thearmo234 — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
erm if you can make it clearer my sound system a bit noob
Comment by iamornot — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Much respect.
Comment by jleack — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
that is a very nice video and we should always respect the men and women who took are places and fought in these terrible wars
Comment by SEXYASSASIN666 — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
there’s a guy every one should respect
Comment by puresystemofadown — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Great post Benbab!(It’s Camyplace here)
I love history and most of all the stories of people who lived such experiences. Here near the river Po we had many battles during the Second World War: germans, americans, partisans and so on and on….
Umm…Your uncle got a strange “cameo” what is that?
Comment by RiverReporter — August 1, 2009 @ 12:42 pm