CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A small wooden tablet that belonged to a Japanese soldier killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima was returned to his family in December thanks to the efforts of a Texas-based ...
In her eventful 47 years on Earth, Shorewood native Dickey Chapelle saw the World War II battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She drove for weeks through the rubble and near-starvation of postwar Europe ...
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The evolution of technology over time is a formula that keeps compounding and increasing the capability of belligerents in ...
With neither beauty nor bounty to its credit, the volcanic island of Iwo Jima entered history with one of those grisly distinctions reserved for small bits of strategic land in wartime. In a 36-day ...
February 23 marks the day the United States Marines raised America’s flag over Mount Suribachi in Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima almost 80 years ago. The moment has been immortalized in a famous ...
Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...