A campaign for these descendants to live on the island has been met with decades of resistance by the Japanese government The ...

With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time, only to be ...

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 ...

Eddie Vincek landed on Iwo Jima about an hour after the first wave of Marines hit the beach. A member of 1st Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, it was his first taste of combat, he told an interviewer ...

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 ...

The Iowa Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge in Johnston is hosting an event Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Goldstar curator Mike Vogt says a presentation at 10:30 a.m.

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...