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 12:38 PM EST The Battle of ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans, a diminishing cohort in the state ...

The USS Bismarck Sea was the last U.S. aircraft carrier lost in battle, sunk by a dual Japanese kamikaze attack during the ...

A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Instead of Vietnam, Floyd received orders to help operate the Loran system on a remote Pacific Island called Iwo Jima. In March 1945, the guns fell silent and blood stopped flowing on Iwo Jima ...

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified, the US Marine Corp says. The famous picture was taken by the Associated Press after ...

SAN ANTONIO — Nearly eight decades after U.S. Marines raised the flag at Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, five of them reunited at San Antonio's Menger Hotel to reconnect ...

On Veterans Day, dozens of people came together to honor veterans at the National Iwo Jima Memorial in Newington. It was a tradition that began almost 30 years ago, thanks to a man named Dr ...

The veterans met at the Iwo Jima Memorial, in New Britain, with the cutting of a birthday cake for the Marines 249th birthday. One of the Marine vets, in attendance, was 101 years old who actually ...

If you do the math, that means he was just a teenager when he witnessed — and took part in — a truly historic moment nearly 80 years ago on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima during World War II.

to the image of U.S. troops raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. Trump joined the “Six Feet Under” podcast with former professional wrestler Mark Calaway, where Trump was asked if ...