Elwood Hughes, a 5th Marine Division veteran, recounts his experiences during the Battle of Iwo Jima, offering a personal ...

FARGO – The Fargo Air Museum, 1609 19th Ave. N., will host a screening of the documentary "Iwo Jima: Combat to Comrades" at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2. The film features 92-year-old former Army Air ...

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago. Troops ...

In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields, the US ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S.

Philadelphia, Pa -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time," he said, recalling ...

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 36 days ...

WASHINGTON (KATV) — Arkansas Senator John Boozman has joined Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) in introducing a bipartisan resolution to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle ...

Editor’s Note: Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN and author of the new book, “IN BLOOD, FLOWERS BLOOM: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations,” which ...

On the morning of February 19, 1945, the first wave of United States Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima — commencing 36 long, perilous days of gruesome warfare, and one of the most consequential ...

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, deadly ...