Vocelka returned to Nebraska soon after the end of World War II, while Tunnyhill stayed ... the Japanese built 11 miles of tunnels beneath Iwo Jima’s volcanic rock. As many as 22,000 Japanese ...

One of the few remaining Marines who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II was laid to rest Monday at Fort ...

Duane Tunnyhill talks about the war in 2015 with a group of World War II veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima at the Bohemian Cafe in Omaha. “I had to use the hard sell,” Tunnyhill told The ...

Emperor Naruhito has repeatedly stressed the importance to remember and keep telling the tragedy of the war to younger ...

Among those who received the Medal of Honor for service during World War II, only two are still alive ... who fought valiantly during the Battle of Iwo Jima and was awarded the Medal of Honor ...

BILLINGS (LEE)— A salute will be held in Billings today to honor the last member of the Marines’ World War II-era Company E, 2nd Battalion - one of the groups of men who fought on Iwo Jima and ...

The flag came off the USS Missoula, a tank transport ship that was serving as a floating field hospital during the first days of the Battle of Iwo Jima, an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and ...