Look for the U.S. Marine who is one of an estimated four remaining survivors of the battle of Iwo Jima in the parade at noon ...

Frank S. Wright, who served in the 4th Raider Battalion in the Pacific during World War II and fought at Guadalcanal and Iwo ...

Capt. Richard Haley relieved Capt. Brian Hamel as USS Iwo Jima’s (LHD 7) 18th commanding officer during a ceremony, June 13th ...

WWII Marine Cpl. Frank S. Wright's 100th birthday wish is to receive 100,000 postcards or birthday cards. Here's where you ...

Amazing footage taken by Japan's Coast Guard shows an eruption near Iwo Jima after an eruption just two months prior to when ...

The historic battleship USS Texas (BB-35), a veteran of both World Wars, is undergoing a massive $75 million restoration in ...

Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers are operating together for the first time in the Pacific. That fuels Tokyo’s concern about Beijing’s rapidly expanding ...

The battle for Iwo Jima would rage for another month. Of the 110,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, and pilots who fought on that volcanic outpost, a staggering 26,000 would be killed or injured.

Lt. Jennifer Bowman, the Iwo Jima’s public affairs officer, emailed from sea, “The ships of our Amphibious Ready Groups and our embarked Marines are our Nation's forward-deployed, quick ...

The Iwo Jima’s group consists of the amphibious transport dock ships, USS San Antonio (LPD 17) and USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28).

The Spot had just sunk the Japanese cargo ship Nanking Maru near Iwo Jima in the East China Sea when it was nearly rammed by a W-17, an armed minelayer.

Eighty years later, Richard Jessor vividly recalls hitting the beach on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. “The island had been under severe bombardment from U.S. aircraft and our Navy ships offshore,” says ...