The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought over a grueling 36 days between February and March of 1945. This battle pitted American ...

The Top 10 John Wayne World War II movies have been ranked by fans on IMDb and Sands of Iwo Jima missed out on No 1.

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 ...

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...

Mervin Nelson, 100, is one of four surviving World War II veterans who fought on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Mervin Nelson, 100, is one of four surviving World War II veterans who fought on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima in 1945.

We’ll call this photo “The Last Day of Kindergarten,” and the composition by Joe Rosenthal is exceptional. The June 18, 1965, scene shows a teacher waving at children as they bolt from the entrance of ...

At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans ... sent to take the porkchop-shaped island of Iwo Jima in February 1945. The Japanese were using the ...