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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The iconic photo of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima was taken on Mount Suribachi. According to Sifuentes, the association sponsors only one other annual ...

Naval aviators kicked off 13 days of carrier-landing practice Monday on Iwo Jima as the aircraft carrier USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment since returning to Japan in November.

Among them is U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Don Graves, a flamethrower who stormed the black sands of Iwo Jima with the 5th Marine Division in one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.

Approximately one-third of all Marines killed in action during World War II were killed on Iwo Jima. More than 100,000 Americans fought there and 6,821 died as a result — 5,931 of them Marines.

During the final stages of the Pacific War at the Battle of Iwo Jima, photographer Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press documented an iconic image of marines raising the U.S. flag on top of Mount ...