Where History and Heroes Meet
INDIANAPOLIS WORLD WAR II ROUNDTABLE - ERNIE PYLE CHAPTER
D-DAY / June 6
Flight from Saipan to Tinian North Field in March 2026. Notice the progression of reclaiming the old World War II airfields used to bomb Japan in 1944-45.
YouTube Link to: Tinian North Field 2026
"The two photos are of my group standing in front of a Sherman tank that was destroyed by a Japanese mine on Peleliu, and of me with a 48-star American flag on Iwo Jima with Mt. Suribachi in the background."
John Shively, author/historian
"Iwo Jima Tour March 2026"
YouTube Link to the memorial ceremony on Iwo Jima:
(Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense, defense.gov)
John Shively on YouTube
Remembering D-Day
"The Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on D-Day successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history — and they did so amid stakes that couldn't have been higher."
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Remembering-D-Day/
US Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, standing by 'Honey Chile', their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (serial 42-31027), at RAF Framlingham, a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command station in England, 18 October 1943.(Photographer: M. McNeil, for Fox Photos. Images courtesy of the Hulton Archive/ Getty Images. Colorized and researched by Benjamin Thomas from Australia).