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

Today, our Nation commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima—a monumental struggle that advanced the cause of victory in the Pacific ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, thousands of U.S. Marines fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II: the Battle ...

DUMFRIES, Va. — A 100 year-old World War II veteran and Marine tank driver reunited with the tank that once carried him through the Battle of Iwo Jima, rekindling his memory of one of the fiercest ...

Pinned down and with casualties mounting, Pvt. Wilson Watson took matters into his own hands to savagely take out enemy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine veteran Leighton Willhite, 100, visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in August to see the tank ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A 100-year-old veteran reunited with “Lucky”—a tank he drove in 1945 during World War II on Friday. The reunion comes on the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender. Marine Corporal ...

"Letters From Iwo Jima" is a necessary movie; too bad it's not a great movie. The first major film made by an American -- Clint Eastwood -- to tell the story of the war in the Pacific from the ...

The image showing American troops at the Battle of Iwo Jima was taken on February 23, 1945, but it took decades before their ...

Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...