The invasion of Iwo Jima, known as Operation Detachment would see the USMC undertake a huge amphibious invasion of the ...

After weeks of fierce fighting, even battle-hardened U.S. Marines were “sitting on the ground, hands to their faces, sobbing their hearts out.” Among the most brutal battles of World War II in ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

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 ...

The sand of Iwo Jima continued to ... and his fellow 5th Division Marines returned to Hawaii to prepare for what was sure to be a far bloodier affair: the invasion of mainland Japan.

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone’s extraordinary heroism in World War II, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, stands as a powerful ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

The Marines were shipped back to their training grounds in Maui for their next mission—the planned invasion of Japan. They spent their days practicing landing craft invasions. At night, Jessor says he ...

Charles Cram spent his first night on Iwo Jima alone in a foxhole ... island as a staging area for a potential invasion of Japan. Roughly 7,000 Marines were killed and another 20,000 wounded ...

On the invasion’s fourth day ... He made the trip to Iwo Jima with other Marines during his first Okinawa tour and plans to attend the battle’s 80th anniversary ceremony on Saturday.