Against the 32-foot high, bronze Marine Corp. War Memorial of the five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima, on 6 July 2010 Lou Lenart, a U.S. Marine Corp. pilot and Israeli machal (volunteer from aboard) was honored by an hour-long parade. Before the parade, General Michael Brogan, commander of the Marine Corps. Systems Command, recounted Lenart's services to the United States and Israel; with respect to the latter, Lenart's contribution to the formation of the Israeli Air Force and having led the IAF's first combat flight on 29 May, 1948, against 10,000 Egyptian forces advancing on Tel Aviv.
