DUMFRIES, Va. — A 100 year-old World War II veteran and Marine tank driver reunited with the tank that once carried him through the Battle of Iwo Jima, rekindling his memory of one of the fiercest ...
Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...
It was mocked as the "worst tank of the war"—but history tells a different story. The American Sherman wasn’t built to take down Tiger tanks in head-on duels. It was engineered for reliability, ...
This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Leighton Willhite was just 19 when he was tasked with ...
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