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Archive Home > 2012 > November > 11 > 36 days at Iwo Jima

36 days at Iwo Jima

• 'A terrible sight': Years later, seminal events of WWII are etched into a Bend Marine's mind

By Ben Botkin / The Bulletin
November 11, 2012

The Battle of Iwo Jima is etched in Lorin Myring's memory.

Myring, at the time a corporal in the Marine Corps' Fifth Division, went ashore in the first wave that stormed the South Pacific island during World War II.

The 36-day battle against the Japanese Imperial Army for control of the island....

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