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.

Seventy-five years ago Wednesday, Fred Reidenbach was aboard a Navy patrol craft loaded with radio gear, helping to coordinate the landing at Iwo Jima, a volcanic island the U.S. military hoped to use ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

In 1958, when I was a young Marine stationed in Washington, Tuesday afternoons were special for my Ceremonial Guard platoon. From May to September, we would be part of a ceremony at the Marine Corps ...

Marvin L. Huls of Moorhead will never forget the bloody battle for Iwo Jima that began 60 years ago next week., when 70,000 U.S. Marines made a beachhead landing on the South Pacific island. Huls wasn ...

Not that being in a tank on Iwo Jima was a safe place. A few days after landing, Bergevin's tank, with five Marines inside, took a direct hit from a shell, apparently fired from an offshore U.S. Navy ...

The U.S. entered World War II 59 years ago following Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. While fighting that war in the Pacific, CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg reports, U.S. Marines ...

Shocky Strand spent last Saturday at the Moorhead Sports Center rooting on his grandson, who plays for the Spuds hockey team. Sixty-two years earlier, Shocky spent late February gathering wounded ...

A 19-year-old Waynesboro area Marine who lost his life during the World War II assault on Iwo Jima 80 years ago is being remembered by Stories Behind the Stars. Pfc. Frederick J. Ricard was born on ...