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104-year-old WWII vet recalls Battle of Iwo Jima 75 years later | New York Post

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This retired US Marine got a second chance at Iwo Jima. Major William C. White, 104, is now that oldest living survivor of the epic 36-day WWII battle that killed 29,000 men. Seventy-five years later, "Bill" looks back at the grenade explosion that nearly took his life — and awarded him a Purple Heart.

"I was probably dead, but I managed to somehow get up and find my way back to the Marines," he revealed from his assisted-living home in Stockton, California. "From there I somehow staggered my way back to the hospital. And that was the end of that."

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