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WWII veterans’ interviews woven into ESPN2’s Pro Bowl Draft 2016 special

Feature

January 27, 2016

| Allie Stoneberg

USS Missouri

(Aimee Stokes/ESPN)
(Aimee Stokes/ESPN)

Stokes: “The “Mighty Mo” was involved in the World War II battles of Iwo Jima & Okinawa. On the deck of the battleship is where the ceremony of the Japanese surrender took place on Sept. 2, 1945.”