Bill Ebersole, 95, who was one of the youngest fighter pilots to fly in World War II at 20 years old, holds a photograph of himself in Iwo Jima as a young pilot in the 506th Fighter Group, at his home in The Village at Gainesville on Wednesday. Ebersol, who was once the publisher of the Gainesville Sun, plans to go with his wife to Iwo Jima — where he flew some of the longest missions ever recorded in WWII — to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle for Iwo Jima. [Brad McClenny/Staff photographer]