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

For the United States Marine Corps, however, the Battle of Iwo Jima was more than one more island in a string of battles in an island-hopping campaign. The Pacific War was one of the most brutal ...

Back to Maui With Iwo Jima secured, the Marines sailed back to Maui to train for their next mission—the planned invasion of Japan. After training during the day, Jessor recalled, he and five other men ...

The Marines were shipped back to their training grounds in Maui for their next mission—the planned invasion of Japan. They spent their days practicing landing craft invasions. At night, Jessor says he ...

George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

5th Marine Division, who was among the first to land on the island of Iwo Jima, also attended the event. Kirby said that his time on the volcanic island, where more than 27,000 American casualties ...

It didn't take Marine generals long to discover that 21,000 Japanese troops were not on Iwo Jima. They were in Iwo Jima. The Japanese had been preparing for an invasion since early 1944.

Charles Cram spent his first night on Iwo Jima alone in a foxhole ... island as a staging area for a potential invasion of Japan. Roughly 7,000 Marines were killed and another 20,000 wounded ...

On the invasion’s fourth day ... He made the trip to Iwo Jima with other Marines during his first Okinawa tour and plans to attend the battle’s 80th anniversary ceremony on Saturday.