No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...

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 ... in the tank battalion was ...

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 ...

CU Boulder photo by Glenn Asakawa. Above: Marines landing on the beach of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. On the evening of Feb. 18, 1945, Jessor was with the Fourth Marine Division on a tank-landing ship ...

Dinsmore would be disappointed, though, if he thought he could ever wash Iwo Jima out of his head ... about his experiences serving with a Marine Corps tank crew in the Pacific war.

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 ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... like enemy tanks as “turtles.” The Pentagon’s “digital content refresh ...

The United Airlines charter flight, organized by the Iwo Jima Association of America and a tour company called Military Historical Tours, in partnership with the USMC and Japanese Ministry of ...

Daniel Penny was honored Wednesday by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day in Boston — where ... But time — the undefeated killer — has left only a few veterans able to attend such ...

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.