Today is the 70th anniversary of the start of the battle of Iwo Jima. On this day, in 1945, U.S. Marines landed on the beaches after months of naval and air bombardment. But what the Marines found ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945 during the final months of World War II. To this day, it is considered one of the most iconic clashes of the so-called Pacific campaign, or Pacific War ...

For 72 consecutive days, sea and air elements of one of the mightiest U.S. naval task forces in history bombarded Iwo Jima.

In late September 1944, three of the U.S. Navy’s top admirals met in San Francisco to discuss the next phase of operations in the Central Pacific theater. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz recommended the ...

The preliminary naval and aerial bombardment, however, disappointed most Marines. By D-day, the Americans had hit the island with 6,800 tons of bombs and 22,000 Naval shells. But the issue was ...

The island of Iwo Jima was hell on earth from Feb. 19, 1945, when U.S. Marines assaulted its beaches, to March 27 of that year, the day combat officially ceased. In 2009 I began writing occasional ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima began with an amphibious assault by Marines on Feb. 19, 1945, following months of aerial and naval bombardment. The Japanese had dug a defensive labyrinth of tunnels into ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...