At 19, Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man WWII Marine from Omaha who was wounded at ...

Marines land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps) Their main task was to determine what the black strip around Iwo Jima was made of. Arriving at Iwo on Feb. 16, 1945, ...

A U.S. Marine Corps photo from Iwo Jima of a flamethrower operator from E Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division.

On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would become over a month long brutal battle.

Gen. Eric Smith, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, gives a speech during a reenlistment ceremony for the 2nd Marine Logistics Group. (Lance Cpl. Alfonso Livrieri/Marine Corps) ARLINGTON ...

Walter O’Malley, a Corporal from the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, who was among the first to land on the island of Iwo Jima, also attended the event.

After 36 days, the Marines secured Iwo Jima. A short time later, U.S. aircraft were able to use its runway, which—combined with the island’s proximity to the Japanese mainland—made it a strategic ...

The veterans met at the Iwo Jima Memorial, in New Britain, with the cutting of a birthday cake for the Marines 249th birthday. One of the Marine vets, in attendance, was 101 years old who actually ...

To put it in a statistical perspective, 20% of all WWII Navy and Marine Corps Medals of Honor were earned at Iwo Jima. 5. U.S. Marines Were Marines and Nothing Else on Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima survivors, from left, Bob Boyd, Vocelka, John Dickinson, Tunnyhill and LeRoy Hanson. Vocelka returned to Nebraska soon after the end of World War II, while Tunnyhill stayed in the Marines ...

At 22 years old, Freel was among the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines who invaded the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. “Shortly before Christmas of 1944, they put us on ships,” Freel said.