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.

The USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the first amphibious assault ship specifically designed as a helicopter carrier, capable of transporting large contingents of Marines, armored vehicles, and aircraft for ...

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.

Many recognize the Joe Rosenthal photo that captured the moment when five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima. Few remember the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Saturday, Ron Scharfe stood atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi and looked down at Green Beach. A thousand yards away and 70 years gone by, the Navy coxswain nicknamed “Rondo” piloted a landing craft ...

WATERLOO - Martin Vermaas doesn't have to see the movie, "Flags of our Fathers" to learn about the Battle of Iwo Jima. He learned about it first-hand on Feb. 19, 1945. That's when Vermaas and his ...

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 ...

IWO JIMA, Japan -- Aging American combat veterans and a handful of former Japanese soldiers gathered on a hillside over the landing beaches of the Battle of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 60th ...