Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

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 ...

In 2021, seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo, Japan, caused two dozen "ghost ships" to rise from the ...

With delivery of Iwo Jima in 2001, the Navy and Marine Corps reached a desired force level of amphibious warfare ships -- LHAs/LHDs, LPDs and LSD 41/49s -- that provide fully capable Expeditionary ...

A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Imperial couple considering visit to Iwo Jima Explosions rock the shore of Iwo Jima during a pre-landing bombardment on Feb. 19, 1945, as seen from a USS Sanborn (APA-193) landing craft.

Over the years, he’s become a keeper of the flame for a ship with a distinguished service record at Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, but less name recognition than ships such as the ...

Despite its superior technology and firepower, the Japanese destroyed the ship in 1941. The Missouri served in the Pacific theater in the assault on Iwo Jima and the Japanese islands before ...

Caption Lt. Timothy Sullivan, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), tries out the Office of Naval Research TechSolutions-sponsored Deployable Ship Integration Multitouch ...

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.

A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day ...

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 ...