GLOVERSVILLE — Feb. 20, 1945 was the second day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, a five-week U.S. invasion of the island during World War II. Ambrose “Cowboy” Anderson of Gloversville, who died late last ...

Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

Shots from three rifles rang out this morning at the Marine Corps League in the Sunnyside section of Staten Island, as a small group marked the 62nd anniversary of the Invasion of Iwo Jima. Several ...

The story behind ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ the most memorable photograph of World War II and one of the most-reproduced images in the history of photography, is told in ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ ...

Eighty years ago this week, U.S. Marine assault boats headed for a desolate pimple of an island, 8 square miles of sand, clay, dust, humpbacked hills, razor-sharp kuna grass, and reeking sulphur, ...

Shocky Strand spent last Saturday at the Moorhead Sports Center rooting on his grandson, who plays for the Spuds hockey team. Sixty-two years earlier, Shocky spent late February gathering wounded ...

Many recognize the Joe Rosenthal photo that captured the moment when five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima. Few remember the ...

A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on Iwo Jima," Henry Diedrich recalled of that February morning in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Texas — About 750 miles off the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean is the tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima. At only eight square miles, it is more than five times smaller than Disney ...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of excerpts from the diary of Anthony Sirco, a gunner on the USS Arkansas during World War II. The first article appeared in the June 2, 2024, issue of ...

(Tribune News Service) — Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen ...