Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article was published on Feb. 19, 2015. Seventy-five years ago today, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and ...

sunk by a dual Japanese kamikaze attack during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 21, 1945. The attacks caused extensive ...

The Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwo Jima in ...

The AN/M2 was fitted as defensive armament on many US Navy aircraft used ... Marines sailed towards Iwo Jima. Gervich himself carried one of the six weapons into battle, four were distributed ...

The battle for Iwo Jima was over on March 26 ... Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 were killed ...

(KDVR) — The only thing Thomas Ramm has left from his time on Iwo Jima is ... As a Navy corpsman, his job was to provide ...

In what became known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea ... On February 19, 1945, American forces invaded the tiny island of Iwo Jima to secure airstrips for American B-29 flyers.

Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. This enduring image is ... These Marines respond, "I do" during the oath of office at the US Naval Academy Class of 2012 graduation and ...

A veteran who served on the USS Nevada during some of the most significant battles of World War II ... France and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, lived in Mankato, Minnesota.

On Nov. 10, 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, ...