On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

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

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 ...

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

Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off mainland defenses to incoming B-29 raids, and establish an emergency landing ...

Jared Frederick stands at a memorial on top of Mt. Suribachi. He teaches history at Penn State Altoona and is the host of the new documentary “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual World War II Battlefield Tour ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The feet that climbed Mount Suribachi move slower now. But they marched proudly into Memorial Hall on Wednesday to observe the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, greeted by ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of ...

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

“Iwo Jima was the most ferocious battle the Marines have ever fought. And they were treating it that way while we were still fighting,” said Alvin M. Josephy Jr. As a Marine Corps combat correspondent ...