A new exhibit, “Secrets of World War II” at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, holds a bit of World War II veteran Barney Leone’s own secret story &…
Part of the Reagan Library’s new “Secrets of WWII” Exhibit that includes Barney Leone opening to the public on Saturday, August 2, 2022. WWII veteran Barney Leone at his home in West Hills, Tuesday, March 29, 2022.
They kept their stories inside almost their entire lives, until one day they found a reason to finally open up. Most have passed on, and their stories and artifacts for the exhibition have come from relatives. He was a 23-year-old motor machinist mate second class manning one of the 20-millimeter guns on the USS Nemasket, a fuel ship anchored 150 yards off shore at Iwo Jima. As the first wave of Marines went in, Barney gave them a thumb’s up sign and salute.
“As Barney shared that story with me, he was holding his flag to his face, as if he was on that landing craft, and the flag was his rifle,” Giller said. “He was totally focused on the war ahead of him. He was there at Iwo Jima that day. It was intense and emotional.” “I got permission from the quartermaster to put it in my locker, and never tell anyone on ship I had it,” Barney said. “When I got home I put it in the closet and never talked about it, even to my father who served in World War I.”
Some days, he says, he’ll just sit for hours in the living room of his West Hills home rereading those letters, always finding himself fighting back tears.
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