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

Joe Caminiti recently traveled to Washington, D.C., where he was honored for his bravery during World War II. The A's still ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

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

Veterans, local government officials, the military academy and others gathered Thursday to celebrate the start of construction on a new museum next to the historic Iwo Jima Monument at the Marine ...

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 ...

The Wasp¬-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is set to begin a modernization program at Norfolk Naval ...

WWII veteran Chuck Tatum recounts his experiences landing on Iwo Jima and fighting alongside Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone. A firsthand look at history.

February 23 holds a special place in history. It saw the siege of the Alamo in 1836. Martial law was declared in Kabul in ...

By March 3, U.S. forces controlled all three airfields on the island, and on March 26 the last Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima were wiped out. Only 200 of the original 22,000 Japanese defenders were ...

As a Conemaugh Valley-based Marine Corps League marked the 81st anniversary of the Iwo Jima flag raising, memories of that ...