The U.S. needed Iwo Jima's airbases. Harry George in front ... And I remember my control column flopped in my lap. The airplane commander's control column flopped this way. The rudder just went ...

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 ...

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines ... “So my other two buddies, they said, ‘make enough for three of us.'” So there he was, slicing up his chocolate ...

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.

Mining company Rio Tinto has reported that a deck fitter on board its bulk carrier RTM Zheng He, travelling from China to Western Australia… ...

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

Recently digitized footage shows the Marine assault on Iwo Jima during World War II, including prepping equipment, arriving on the island and raising the flag. (U.S. Marine Corps History Division ...

TOKYO, May 8. /TASS/. The US will carry out exercise involving the Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, stationed at the Yokosuka naval base near the island of Iwo Jima, the Ministry of Defense of ...

The BAR played a fundamental role in the famous battle of Iwo Jima. Weighing in at 18 pounds, it was essential for service members like Medal of Honor recipient Pvt. Wilson Watson to take the island.

“She put his favorite singer, Frank Sinatra, on her phone and he peacefully left us.” Persichitti had served in Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Guam as a radioman second class on the command ship U.S.S ...