One of the American B-24 bombers ("Liberator") of the 7th Air Force, that bombed the island of Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi is towering over the island, site of fierce fighting during the storming of Iwo Jima. February 1945.

B-24 over Iwo Jima

Two-time WW2 POW veteran passes away at the age of 89

A 21-year-old radio operator for the U.S. Army Air Forces, Phillips was shot down in 1944 and captured by the Germans. Then, after escaping, he was sent to fight in the Pacific and landed in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, where he was tortured.

This man was the Chaplin of our WORLD WAR TWO ROUND-TABLE group for some years before his death. His treatment as a POW of the Japs was very bad and he did not like to go there often with his stories.

http://www.worldwarhistoryonline.com/world-war-history-news-articles/item/1623-second-world-war-two-time-pow-passes-away

Army Air Corp Radioman POW of Japanese and Nazis

A friend whose Uncle was shot down in the Pacific with his B-17 received this autographed photo from Lou Zamperini.

Lou died July 2, 2014, his story is coming out on the big screen in December.