but after weeks of fighting it would be the following month when Iwo Jima was declared secure and firmly in the hands of the U.S. Marines. In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I look at the invasion ...

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

Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on ...

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 ...

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

They came to hear his experiences as a Marine ... arrived during the pre-invasion bombardment of the island. “We arrived a day early outside the island (Iwo Jima), not only were they continuing ...

More than 50 years later, the Rosenthal photograph would again inspire architects who designed Quantico’s National Museum of the Marine Corps ... of the Battle of Iwo Jima that began Feb ...

After the overhaul, the USS George Washington resumed forward deployment in Japan. Conducting flight drills on Iwo Jima ...