A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. The Marine Corps was founded 250 years ago today.

Seeing the Stars and Stripes go up on Iwo Jima was one of the most powerful moments of my life. I’m sharing what it was like to witness history firsthand and what that day meant to all of us on the ...

On February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured one of the most iconic images of World War II: six Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi. Yet the moment ...

For Teddy Bucki and other Marines, it was a job just getting onto the beaches to fight the enemy at Iwo Jima. The first challenge occurred with their transfer from the bigger troop ships to the ...

The FBI-led analysis ensures no more corrections are needed. The United States Marine Corps corrected the identity of another one of the six men raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi in an ...

EFFINGHAM - Bill Genaust never met Marine Sgt. William Genaust, a distant relative who was killed on Iwo Jima, during one of the costliest campaigns of World War II. As a 13-year-old boy living on a ...

Born in 1926 in New Orleans, Charles Calvin Holdeman Jr. grew up through the Great Depression, waiting in soup lines and packing his shoes with cardboard when they wore thin. At 17, with World War II ...

VANCOUVER Wash. (KPTV) - A Vancouver teen was one of 12 Young Marines invited to visit the location of a major World War II battle along with World War II veterans. Young Marine Sergeant Major ...

The Trump administration removed Ira Hayes' Native American heritage from the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo website. The Department of Defense cited "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs" as eroding ...

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