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.

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), adjusts for fire ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an ...

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.

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Memorial Day celebrations and tributes took place around the United States to honor the men and women who served in our Armed Forces. One local Marine has spent years ...

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 ...

DANBURY -- Marching in five-by-five formation, the Marines made their way up a hilltop on the barren Japanese island of Iwo Jima. All of a sudden, John yelled, "Spike, behind you!" Emil Samuelson, ...

Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...