Best portions of this pic are the straight battle sequences, many of which were made up of footage taken at the actual fighting at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. John Wayne stands head and shoulders above ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

Your changes have been saved Email is sent Email has already been sent Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan, is a 1950 war film starring John Wayne as Marine Sgt. John Stryker. The story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified ... not Navy hospital corpsman John Bradley. Getty Images The famous 'Gung ho ...