Uncovering the environmental costs of WWII on Iwo Jima, Japan, where elevated heavy metal levels persist in Iwo Jima’s iconic ...

Before directing Second World War companion films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima in his later life, he played lead roles in Where Eagles Dare and Kelly’s Heroes. Both classics ...

Every time Marine veteran Billy Hall shared the story of his military service across three wars, he ended it by telling those who thanked him for his service, “You were worth it.” Hall, of Orange, who ...

Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir and Hue City. After leaving military service in 1967, Hall earned a degree from Rancho Santiago Community College in Santa Ana and worked for the Santa Ana Downtown ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Have we turned into a nation of prudes when it comes to public nudity? After a 1700-kilometre drive from Melbourne to northern NSW ...

This week marks the 79th anniversary of the release of 1945’s They Were Expendable, a film set during the Battle of the Philippines which took place just a couple of years prior. The film’s ...

The maps let you duke it out in all of WW2’s theatres so that you could fight as the British in El Alamein or the Imperial Japanese Navy in Iwo Jima. A few years ago, EA made it free ...

Most holidays in the Caribbean follow a similar experience: busy, built-up beaches with oversized resorts offering every holiday experience you can imagine, from a feast of flavours to pampering ...

Sands of Iwo Jima This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima's beaches to the historic flag ...

Over 90% of eThekwini’s beaches are currently open for swimming. Picture: iStock As thousands of South Africans prepare to welcome 2025 at the nation’s beaches, some popular swimming spots are ...

Their grandfathers stormed the beaches of Omaha and Iwo Jima, fought through the bitter winters of Korea, waded through the rice paddies in Vietnam, and manned those M-1 Abrams in Desert Storm.