23, 2025 Iwo Jima has always been beautiful ... trying to establish the location of a Japanese machine-gun nest on a map so as to forward the information to attacking artillery or mortar units.

23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally Eighty years later, Richard Jessor vividly recalls hitting the beach on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. “The island had been under severe bombardment ...

To honor the five-week Iwo Jima campaign, the Victory Sands models of the Iwo Jima A-11 depict a map of the island with the progress of the Marine Divisions from February into March 1945.

The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands ...

Don Graves, 99, of Keller, is one of four surviving Marine Corps members from the Battle of Iwo Jima. Courtesy of Don Graves All it takes is a close of his eyes and Don Graves is a 19-year-old at ...

Staff Sergeant Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Marines and their families came together at the State House on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the historic Battle of Iwo Jima. This World War II battle lasted ...