Iwo Jima is famous. The battle between the US and Japanese forces are well remembered – by both sides. Before the war, about 1000 people lived here. After the war, ...

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Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The National Museum of the Marine Corps reunited a World War II veteran with the tank he drove during the Battle of Iwo Jima, in a ceremony held Aug. 15 at the Museum ...

In a potential war with either Nicolas Maduro’s military and/or Venezuela’s massive, powerful drug cartels, the USS Iwo Jima would be instrumental in multi-phased operations. Amid escalating tensions ...

At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. He entered the ranks of the 4th Marine Raiders and later the 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and went on to fight ...

Frank S. Wright being promoted from corporal to honorary sergeant on Aug. 31, 2025. (Sgt. Haley Fourmet Gustavsen/Marine Corps) At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to enlist in the U.S.

NEW BRITAIN — Connecticut’s last two living veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima, 100-year-old Joe Caminiti, of Bristol, and 99-year-old Peter Senick, of New Haven, will be honored next month, along ...

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Leighton Willhite was just 19 when he was tasked with driving a tank called “Lucky” ashore at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. On Friday, 80 years after Japan’s surrender, the 100-year-old Willhite was ...

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group returned stateside earlier this week as a hurricane in the western Atlantic Ocean threatened high winds and large swells along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Leighton Willhite was just 19 when he was tasked with ...