John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became ...

Harold Schultz, Sgt. Michael Strank, Pfc. Franklin Sousley, Pfc. Harold Keller and Cpl. Harlon Block. Block, Sousley and Strank were later killed during the fighting on Iwo Jima. But the image has ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea ... in our Nissan or our Plymouth — we had one car for each country — and we would sometimes pass the Marine Corps ...

A campaign for these descendants to live on the island has been met with decades of resistance by the Japanese government The ...

these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II Memorial for a brief ceremony. Men who witnessed one of the toughest fights in American history: the Battle of Iwo Jima.

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up ...

They are part of the Greatest Generation and survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. As their numbers ...

Iwo Jima means “sulfur island” in Japanese ... for each country — and we would sometimes pass the Marine Corps War Memorial, Mr. Rosenthal’s photo cast as a bronze statue.

Robert Boyd Jr. begged his widowed mother to let him join the Marines during World War II before he turned 18. He survived the trial by fire at Iwo Jima ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima,” according to a news ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was 80 years ago, when the U.S. captured the strategically located Pacific island after a five-week ...