He joined the Marines at 16, served as a Raider, and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal in World War II. Now, he just wants ...

It became a symbol of triumph, but the moment the flag went up at Iwo Jima marked just the beginning of a brutal fight. Many of the men who raised it wouldn’t live to see the end of the war. Their ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. About 27,000 men were killed, including 20,000 Japanese soldiers hiding in tunnels and burrowed in caves and pillboxes on the 8-square ...

House Armed Services Committee members this week will hold their annual marathon markup for the defense authorization bill, a ...

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) concluded the ...

Iwo Jima Reunion. Aging veterans return to Iwo Jima -- perhaps for the last time -- to commemorate the 65th anniversary of one of the costliest American victories of World War II.

Iwo Jima survivors recall 1945 battle 02:58. WASHINGTON --It was 70 years ago Thursday, during the Second World War, that U.S. forces began a bloody but successful battle to capture the Japanese ...

Sixty-five years ago a force of 70,000 U.S. Marines fought and won a pitched battle against Japanese forces on the island of Iwo Jima, a rocky and uninhabited stretch of earth 750 miles to the ...

At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt days later seeing Old Glory raised high.

The new island is an indication that Iwo Jima is volcanically active again. Setsuya Nakada / Asahi Shimbun “Volcanic ash and bombs reached ejected masses as high as 100 meters high above, and ...