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.
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.
During the battle to take the island from the Japanese, more than 70,000 Marines and attached Army and Navy personnel set foot on Iwo Jima. That included combat soldiers, but also medical corpsmen, ...
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 ...
The US used the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima – one of the Navy's most important multi-purpose warships – in the ...
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 ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the ...
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