The story of the park is a complicated affair and has grown into a situation where it seems to languish without a foreseeable ...

also saying that Persichitti had been enjoying some time with his fellow World War II veterans before his death. "He was a radio man on a communications ship off the coast of Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article was published on Feb. 19, 2015. Seventy-five years ago today, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son, Kentaro, wants to finally bring his father home. Kunizo Iwai is one of the more than 10,000 Imperial Japanese Army ...

Austin Schwenk stands with his father, Robert Schwenk Jr., in front of the Iwo Jima Monument on Parris Island ... Robert Schwenk Jr., remembering his son, reflected on his birth and death, both of ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

Charles Sehe, who served on the ship during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, lived in Mankato, Minnesota. His death was ...