HARROWING photos reveal the brutal fighting at the Battle of Iwo Jima, on the 75th anniversary of one of the Second World War's bloodiest conflicts. After the strategic outpost was captured ...

the Battle of Iwo Jima began on February 19, 1945 and raged for 36 days, devastating the island stronghold. W. Eugene Smith, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Bill Montgomery doesn’t hear ...

The battle lasted for five weeks and was ... Joe Rosenthal, a veteran AP cameraman, who took the famous picture of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, holding camera. (Bettmann via Getty Images) That ...

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

That mightily symbolic moment was captured in the iconic picture taken by war photographer ... on the fourth day of fighting, the battle for Iwo Jima lasted 33 more days and resulted in 26,000 ...

We've seen pictures of the sands ... There are plenty of them. >> The battle on Iwo Jima was punctuated with so many acts of courage and bravery that a record 27 Medals of Honor were awarded ...

“I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual WWII Battlefield Tour” can be found on ... “I wanted to try to incorporate the picture and videos and what he was speaking about in his narration and not break ...

That picture won the Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1945 ... he and five other men in a tent would drink beer in the evening and “relive every inch of the battle of Iwo Jima.” “Somebody would say, ...

Don Graves, 99, of Keller, is one of four surviving Marine Corps members from the Battle of Iwo Jima. Courtesy of Don ... off and inside his helmet was a picture of a young woman with a baby ...