U.S. Marine Corps Footage: Marines in the Field at Iwo Jima Recently digitized footage shows Marine in dugouts in the field, working on building a hospital and assisting the wounded on the front lines ...

By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima, which began Feb. 19, 1945, was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, as former Cpl. Don Graves knows firsthand and ...

The 30,000 Marines who came ashore that first day ... By war's end, more than 3,000 B-29s in distress had used Iwo Jima's landing strips.

and made a second landing on Iwo Jima. He went right back to work as a radioman, helping with communications for 36 days in February and March 1945 as the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history ...

Police have closed off Lowell Boulevard in both directions as they investigate a singular vehicle motorcycle crash that sent one to the hospital. Football fans flocked to the bars to celebrate a ...

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.

The new Marine was stationed in Guam, and just a few months later, found himself on the shores of Iwo Jima, diving into foxholes to escape Japanese gunfire. "The fighting didn't stop," Ed says.

Seven months later, they fought as Marine infantrymen at Guadalcanal. Later Worth became an officer and commanded a team of military dog handlers in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was an eyewitness to ...

This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima’s beaches to the historic flag-raising episode ...

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 ...