Inferno MOH Recipient Fueled Heroism on Iwo Jima with Flamethrower
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DAYTONA 500 AFGHANISTAN FACES Horrifying crash, Hamlin’s Ghani finally declared Morgan’s comedy victory display contrasts of winner of disputed career back on track racing’s risks and rewards presidential election after 2014 accident Back page Page 3 Page 14 Led by US, global military spending had biggest bump in decade » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 78, No. 218 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Into the inferno MOH recipient fueled heroism on Iwo Jima with flamethrower BY MICHAEL E. RUANE The Washington Post ONA, W.Va. he Japanese soldiers came out of their concrete “pill box” with bay- onets fixed, determined to get the TMarine who had been killing them all afternoon with a flamethrower. Their target was Hershel Williams. He was 5-foot-6, the youngest of the 11 chil- dren of a dairy farmer from Quiet Dell, W.Va. He had a nice smile, and a girl back home named Ruby whom he planned to marry when the war was over. He was 21 and known as “Woody.” But 75 years ago this month, on a Godfor- saken volcanic island in the Pacific called Iwo Jima, he was a terrifying destroyer of the Japanese, incinerating men in their hideouts with jets of blazing diesel fuel and high octane gasoline. They had to stop him. But he saw them coming, and pulled the two triggers on his fearsome weapon. SEE INFERNO ON PAGE 4 Photographs on display at the home of Hershel “Woody” Williams show images of the Marine veteran today and in 1945. RICH-JOSEPH FACUN For The Washington Post Boy Scouts’ future uncertain after bankruptcy filing BY DAVID CRARY as scouts by scoutmasters or other leaders decades A statue outside Associated Press ago but are only now eligible to sue because of recent the Boy Scouts of changes in their states’ statute-of-limitations laws. America headquarters Barraged by hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits, the By going to bankruptcy court, the Scouts can put in Irving, Texas, is Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protec- those lawsuits on hold . Ultimately they could be forced pictured Feb 12. tion Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially to sell off some of their vast property holdings, includ- The 110-year-old mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow ing campgrounds and hiking trails, to raise money for organization filed for the 110-year-old organization to carry on. a compensation trust fund that could surpass a billion bankruptcy protection The Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court dollars. Tuesday as it faces a in Wilmington, Del., set in motion what could be one The bankruptcy petition listed the Boy Scouts’ as- barrage of new sex abuse lawsuits. of the biggest, most complex bankruptcies ever seen. sets as between $1 billion and $10 billion, and its li- Scores of lawyers are seeking settlements on behalf abilities at $500 million to $1 billion. LM OTERO/AP of several thousand men who say they were molested SEE SCOUTS ON PAGE 6 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, February 19, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER Apple warns virus will cut iPhone production, sales EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc) .............................. 0.9828 Euro costs (Feb. 19) ..........................$1.1107 Thailand (Baht) ......................................... 31.17 Dollar buys (Feb. 19) ........................€0.9003 Turkey (New Lira) .................................. 6.0627 Associated Press ramping up slowly. ket for iPhones, after the U.S. and British pound (Feb. 19) ........................$1.34 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Feb. 19) ...................... 107.00 available to customers at military banking “The health and well-being Europe. South Korean won (Feb. 19) ..........1,157.00 facilities in the country of issuance CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple Commercial rates of every person who helps make Outside China, Apple said for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Inc. is warning investors that it Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................... 0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For these products possible is our iPhone demand has been strong British pound ........................................ $1.3027 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., won’t meet its second-quarter paramount priority, and we are and is in line with the company’s Canada (Dollar) ....................................... 1.3261 purchasing British pounds in Germany), financial guidance because the China (Yuan) .............................................. 7.000 check with your local military banking working in close consultation with expectations. Denmark (Krone) .................................... 6.9103 facility. Commercial rates are interbank viral outbreak in China has cut our suppliers and public health On Jan. 28, Apple said it ex- Egypt (Pound)....................................... 15.6212 rates provided for reference when buying production of iPhones. Euro ............................................ $1.0809/0.9251 currency. All figures are foreign currencies experts as this ramp continues,” pected second quarter revenue Hong Kong (Dollar) ................................ 7.7696 to one dollar, except for the British pound, The Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said in a statement. between $63 billion and $67 bil- Hungary (Forint) ..................................... 310.22 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, company said Monday that all of Israel (Shekel) ......................................... 3.4201 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Apple says demand for iPhones lion. Apple’s second quarter ends Japan (Yen)............................................... 109.93 its iPhone manufacturing facili- is also down in China because March 30. Kuwait (Dinar) ........................................ 0.3055 INTEREST RATES ties are outside Hubei province, Norway (Krone) ...................................... 9.3132 many of Apple’s 42 retail stores Apple says the situation is Philippines (Peso) .................................... 50.60 Prime rate ................................................4.75 the epicenter of the outbreak, there are closed or operating evolving and it will provide more Poland (Zloty) .............................................. 3.95 Discount rate ..........................................2.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .............................. 3.7506 Federal funds market rate ...................1.58 and all have been reopened. But with reduced hours. China is information on its next earnings Singapore (Dollar).................................. 1.3919 3-month bill .............................................1.53 the company said production is Apple’s third largest retail mar- call in April. South Korea (Won) ............................ 1,190.14 30-year bond ...........................................2.05 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 36/33 Kabul 48/28 Seoul 46/30 Baghdad 68/56 Kandahar 54/41 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 49/32 48/35 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 45/35 40/37 51/37 Iwakuni 50/45 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 69/64 Brussels 42/37 Guam 75/60 46/38 Ramstein 54/43 80/77 Lajes, 39/36 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 87/62 78/60 62/59 41/38 46/34 Aviano/ Vicenza 48/39 Naples 55/49 Okinawa Morón 66/63 66/53 Sigonella Rota 59/33 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 83/73 63/50 57/49 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports ...................17-24 Wednesday, February 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY US, China Ghani finally wins Afghan election lead spike BY J.P. LAWRENCE in 2014 also ended in allegations Stars and Stripes of fraud, leading then-U.S. Secre- in defense tary of State John Kerry to assist KABUL, Afghanistan — Ashraf in negotiating a power-sharing Ghani has been declared the win- arrangement. ner of Afghanistan’s disputed spending The head of Afghanistan’s In- presidential election on Tuesday, dependent Election Commission nearly five months after the bal- BY JOHN VANDIVER acknowledged Tuesday that secu- lots were cast. Stars and Stripes The incumbent Ghani received rity threats and disputes in count- 50.64% of the vote, the country’s ing the votes affected the election STUTTGART, Germany — An- process. election commission announced. nual military spending climbed “We tried our best,” said Hawa Ghani called for “unity and worldwide in 2019 by the larg- Alam Nooristani, head of the coordination” during a press est amount in a decade, with the commission. “We are announcing conference Tuesday night, even U.S. far outpacing second-place this result with full transparency as his chief opponent called the China, a new study has found. election illegal. with respect to the people’s vote.” Global defense spending rose “I want to tell everyone that the Turnout during last year’s bal- by 4% in 2019 compared to the day of rivalry is ended,” he said. lot was about 1.8 million, or less In second place was Chief Ex- than 20% of the country’s 9.6 mil- previous year, a report released ecutive Officer Abdullah Abdul- lion registered voters. Ghani re- last week by the International In- lah, who received 39.52% of the ceived less than a million votes. stitute for Strategic Studies said. vote, followed by former war- U.S. officials said Washington Washington and Beijing both lord