23, 2025 Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ... machine-gun nest on a map so as to forward the information ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate ...

The Marine Corps made national headlines a few years ago when officials announced that one of the men in perhaps the most iconic photograph of Marines in World War II had been misidentified for ...

A sailor in the Pacific during World War II, he missed her birthdays and Christmas ... days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the battle ended, he wrote, "You ...

Courtesy of Don Graves All it takes is a close of his eyes and Don Graves is a 19-year-old at the historic battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, wondering if he’d see his 20th birthday.

The photo went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and to visually define the Pacific Theater of World War II. Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 660 miles south of Tokyo, was of interest to the U.S ...

Reporter’s Notebook: This week marks the 80th anniversary of the famed Battle of Iwo Jima. Some of the men who braved those shores are in town to mark this key turning point in World War II.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo Jima during World War II is a source of pride.

23, more than 50 World War II veterans and community members gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first U.S. flag raised on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.