Iwo Jima comprised only 8 square miles, and the plan was for U.S. forces to conquer the island in three to five days, then sail off to invade Japan. Things did not go according to plan. Fighting ...

The replica — albeit a slight difference than the one in the nation’s capital — shows Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. Thirty days later, though, American forces successfully ...

More than 50 Marine combat cameramen operated across the eight square miles of Iwo Jima during the battle, which stretched from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. Many shot still images, but at least 26 ...

He joined the Marines at 16, served as a Raider, and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal in World War II. Now, he just wants ...

A Final Landing on Iwo Jima. Special | 57m 33s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Follow a veteran of the 4th Marine Division as he returns to Iwo Jima for the final time. We also chronicle a son who ...

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 ...

On Feb. 19, 1945, Vincek was assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division for the Iwo Jima landing. In fierce fighting, ...

What if today's reporters had covered the Marines landing on Iwo Jima, a small island in the far away Pacific Ocean, in the same way they're covering the war in Iraq? Here's how it might have looked: ...

One of his great-grandfather’s stories — about landing on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 — still sticks with him. The Marines were under so much gunfire that, as Justice recalled, “all you had ...

So, the fact Iwo Jima had a landing strip on it was important for that reason, as well as serving as a base for the projected attack on Tokyo.” But the victory came at a tremendous cost to the Marines ...

The landing itself “became a chaotic jumble of rapid events,” according to Capt. John C. Chapin, ... Chaos on the shoreline of Iwo Jima in February 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps) ...