One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

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.

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 12:38 PM EST The Battle of ...

In February 1945, a quarter of all US marines killed in World War II die on the small Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Every third man is killed in the mighty battle itself, forcing US Marines to change ...

Taking a string of new recruits under his command, a harsh war sergeant prepares his men for the battle of Iwo Jima. Their survival depends on their leader's strict training regime, as his army ...

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified, the US Marine Corp says. The famous picture was taken by the Associated Press after ...

George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

Best Director nominee Clint Eastwood's charged companion piece to his "Flags of Our Fathers" is a poignant and impressive deconstruction of the World War II battle from the perspective of the ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son, Kentaro, wants to finally bring his father home. Kunizo Iwai is one of the more than 10,000 Imperial Japanese Army ...

The New Jersey native commanded the 6th Marine War Dog Platoon, which participated in the battle for Iwo Jima in February and March 1945. He lived in Omaha with his daughter and son-in-law ...

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