It was defended by 22,500 Japanese soldiers hidden in an underground network of bunkers stretching from shore to shore. To his last days, Tunnyhill could not forget his first day on Iwo Jima ...

In the cracked concrete of an old bunker on Suribachi ... half,” he said. After Iwo Jima, Scharfe was part of the assault on Okinawa. As his ship neared shore, Japanese kamikaze planes flew ...

The first shots of the Cold War were fired in Korea. Americans heard the term “domino theory” for the first time. If Korea ...

Japan's royal family wrapped up a two day visit to Okinawa Thursday, where they paid respects to the victims of a World War ...

The morning of Feb. 19, 1945, dawned eerily quiet as Dale Faughn made his way toward the shores of the remote Japanese island of Iwo Jima. But in an instant, the 20-millimeter dual purpose guns ...

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the ... which participated in the battle for Iwo Jima in February and March 1945. He lived in Omaha with his daughter and son-in-law, Barbara ...

Dyce started and ended the battle to take the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, a pivotal fight that pushed up the end of the war. Dyce’s grandson, Joey Zahn, noted that the Marines were called ...

SAGINAW, Texas — For most it’s an iconic moment captured in a timeless photo and placed in just about every U.S. history book in existence: that moment a group of United States Marines planted the ...

Visitors to Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota will be greeted by a major new amenity this year. The Crane Lake Visitor Center, the park’s new visitor center, will greet park-goers at ...