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

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled ... "The taking of the 554-foot hill was ...

Navajo code talkers were instrumental in taking the island. They were all Marines. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's photo of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi is ...

On Feb. 19, 1945, a small island in the Pacific Ocean was etched into history and the tides of World War II were altered when U.S. Marines launched an amphibious invasion on Iwo Jima ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

between about 70,000 Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers. Capturing Iwo Jima was deemed essential to the U.S. war effort because Japanese fighter planes were taking off from the island and ...

Iwo Jima, Japan, below the sculpture in Arlington that immortalized that moment in bronze. Gen. Eric Smith, the assistant Marine commandant, led the ceremony. Swiney was one of 58 Marines from 2nd ...

Marines were taking the high ground, and there was now little doubt they would eventually take Iwo Jima from the 23,000 Japanese troops entrenched in an elaborate network of caves and tunnels.

During the battle to take the island from the Japanese, more than 70,000 Marines and attached Army and Navy personnel set foot on Iwo Jima. That included combat soldiers, but also medical corpsmen ...

and the sense was that Iwo Jima could be taken in three or four days because nothing could have survived such a massive bombardment from American forces.” The first three waves of Marines landed on ...

It didn't take Marine generals long to discover that 21,000 Japanese troops were not on Iwo Jima. They were in Iwo Jima. The Japanese had been preparing for an invasion since early 1944.