The Japanese defending Iwo Jima on D-day displayed superb tactical discipline. As Lieutenant Colonel Justus M. ‘Jumpin’ Joe’ Chambers led his 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, across the first terrace on ...

LVTs retracting from the Iwo Jima beaches after landing the initial waves of Marines, during the morning of Feb. 19, 1945. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is in the right-center. Navy Photo Iwo Jima was “what ...

BOYNTON BEACH — Like many combat veterans, Greg "Doc" Emery gives the same answer when he's asked if he thinks about the buddies he lost. "Every day." Two years later, he watched the "stirring" site ...

" Flag raising on Iwo Jima," 23 February 1945 (Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press, now in the National Archives) Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima in Japan met for the first ...

Pebble Beach >> America lost another World War II veteran recently when John Torchia, the former Marine medic who was at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was one of two surviving members of his unit, died ...

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-raising episode atop the ...

The following unattributed article was originally published in the Camp Lejeune Globe in 1956, on the 16th anniversary of the landing on Iwo Jima. A great American armada lay off the ash-laden beaches ...

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...

Two dozen World War II-era ships in the water just off the island’s black-sand beaches were photographed from above and reported Oct. 18 by the All-Nippon News Network. Although the ships have ...

Tony Cappa remembers lying on a beach at Iwo Jima on Feb. 20, 1945, the second day of what would become one of the Marine Corps’ bloodiest battles. “We were taking a little bit of rifle fire and the ...

William Leverance, 85, of Orlando, Fla., overlooks the beach where he came ashore to fight in 1945 from atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, about 700 miles southeast of Tokyo on Friday IWO JIMA, Japan (AP ...

Dozens of U.S. veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, returned to the remote volcanic island of Iwo Jima on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's fiercest battles. The veterans, ...