On March 2, 1945, the 5th Marine Division was embroiled in the battle for Hill 362. The division would fight on Iwo Jima ...

While the NMMC preserves both flags in their collection, they are only displayed together briefly each year to mark the ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

One of the nation’s last living survivors of the Battle of Iwo Jima is still standing tall more than eight decades later. At ...

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Memorial Day celebrations and tributes took place around the United States to honor the men and women who served in our Armed Forces. One local Marine has spent years ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with soldiers, music and... The Battle of Iwo Jima began 80 years ago. Listen ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, thousands of U.S. Marines fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II: the Battle of Iwo Jima. Two flags will be on display to celebrate them ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time," he said, recalling ...

BERLIN — Clint Eastwood says he found that U.S. veterans of the 1945 fighting on Iwo Jima were curious to know about the Japanese side of the story — chronicled in his Oscar-nominated Letters From Iwo ...