A Long and Fierce Fight D-Day for Iwo Jima was February 19, 1945. The 30,000 Marines who came ashore that first day had to uproot 21,000 Japanese defenders in well-fortified underground bunkers.

Nearing the end of World War II in February 1945, the U.S. military landed on Iwo Jima. Although the Imperial Japanese Army soldiers fought back while hiding in bunkers, dugouts and caves ...

The American Legion Post 10 has opened an expanded Military Museum at Bunkers Restaurant and Tribute Golf in Wausau. Past Commander Bob Weller and Honor ...

Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is a weekend open discussion ... The caption to this week’s top shot reads: Marines, wounded in the battle for Iwo Jima, are sheltered in a Japanese concrete air ...

WAUSAU, WIS (WJFW) - American Legion Post 10 in Wausau has brought military history out of storage with a new exhibit. I ...

The Loran system on Iwo Jima was the "master station" with other ... Exploring caves and bunkers, helping the Japanese recover remains, manning the Loran system to fight yet another war ...

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 ...

In 1943, the U.S. Army and Navy jointly began a two-pronged attack through the central Pacific and across New Guinea to the ...

During the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, U.S. forces sank the ships ... about 70,000 U.S. Marines fought against 20,000 ...

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 ...