A Long and Fierce Fight D-Day for Iwo Jima was February 19, 1945. The 30,000 Marines who came ashore that first day had to uproot 21,000 Japanese defenders in well-fortified underground bunkers.

A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...

The story of the park is a complicated affair and has grown into a situation where it seems to languish without a foreseeable ...

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified ... This is not the first time the list of the six US fighters has been amended.

John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism — making him the first and only enlisted Marine to receive the Medal of Honor ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son ... The latest ceremony was the first in several years for Kentaro, who allowed his eldest son, Kazuyoshi, 45, to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — had a block in ...