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 ...

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.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. — World War II veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Louis Bourgault Jr. was honored by family, friends and U.S. Marines during a ceremony aboard the decommissioned battleship USS North ...

Don Graves is a World War II veteran and witnessed the flag being raised after the war in Iwo Jima. He celebrated his 100th birthday in Nashville by helping write a song about his story of survival.

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 ...

Originally from Detroit, he enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17. He survived the entire 36-day campaign at the Battle of Iwo Jima as an Army corporal operating a flamethrower. Today ...