The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the ...

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 ...

After weeks of fierce fighting, even battle-hardened ... about every corner of Iwo Jima’s eight square miles. What he saw from about a quarter-mile away sent a charge of excitement through ...

In the Pacific Theater, only the fight for Iwo Jima later in the war surpassed the American-to-Japanese combat casualty ratio on Attu, which included a final brutal banzai charge by the enemy.

102-year-old WWII veteran John Robinson, the last surviving member of his unit, recounted his experiences at the Battle of Iwo Jima ... there was a lieutenant in charge, I was a staff sergeant ...

He wrote his "darling wife and babies" on March 27, one day after the Battle of Iwo Jima , to let them know he was all right after the Japanese banzai attack. "The raid put the fear of God into ...

It set into motion a grinding, bitter battle ... Iwo Jima. Yet he had a plan that he hoped would at least stall the Allies from making an invasion of Japan's home islands. Instead of foolhardy ...

In charge of Company E ... Newcomb wrote in "Iwo Jima: The Dramatic Account of the Epic Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II." "Several men, crying now, ran to him and, for a moment ...

Zilliacus, 98, was aboard the submarine USS Spot on March 17, 1945, weeks after the Iwo Jima battle began ... The sub survived multiple depth-charge attacks during the war.

I fought like hell,” recalled retired Marine Raider Frank Wright of his experience during the Battle of Iwo Jima eight decades ago ... members of today’s amphibious force have an important charge: to ...