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08/14/2025

Happy to spend the week at USMCRD in San Diego to promote the late Col. Dave Severance’s book, MY IWO JIMA SAGA.

11/26/2024

This holiday season, consider purchasing copies of Marine Col. Dave Severance's book, "My Iwo Jima Saga," for those in your life who appreciate history and valor. Available exclusively through Tales Press through the end of the year. Orders are filled promptly.

The first-hand account is a valuable contribution to the historical record of the infamous World War II Battle of Iwo Jima by the commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines -- which included the 40-man patrol that raised the American flag (two, in fact) on top of Mount Suribachi and inspired a nation to victory.

Other books from Tales Press are also available at the website.

The authorized, first-hand account by the commander of the company that raised two American flags atop Mount Suribachi during the World War II battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945 — a bloody battle that was immortalized in the world famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal that he...

10/23/2024

Available exclusively from Tales Press, MY IWO JIMA SAGA is the just-published, first-hand account by the late Col. Dave E. Severance, company commander of the Marine patrol that raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the World War II battle in February 1945 — a bloody campaign that was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal of The Associated Press that helped inspire a war-weary nation to victory. Order your copy today. https://www.talespress.com/shop/my-iwo-jima-saga

07/25/2024

Click the photo below to read Ray Elliott's piece in the Champaign-Urbana newspaper this week about knowing Col. Dave Severance (USMC, Ret.), the commander of the company that raised the flag on Iwo Jima. Severance entrusted his firsthand account of the seminal battle to Ray for publication at Tales, and it is now available for purchase.

Click here to order online: https://www.talespress.com/shop/my-iwo-jima-saga

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“I don’t know what I did to deserve those awards,” Col. Dave E. Severance told me humbly, as many do who have fought for our freedom, seen a lot of