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 ...

New Jersey’s guns blasted Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, as Marines stormed ashore. Her shells pulverized concrete bunkers across the volcanic island, particularly on Mount Suribachi where Japanese ...

After the overhaul, the USS George Washington resumed forward deployment in Japan. Conducting flight drills on Iwo Jima ...

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

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

Veteran Robert Clemons was a Marine who spent time on both Guam and Iwo Jima during World War II. Clemons’ trip on Saturday will be his first time back to the small Japanese island. The former ...

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

I never found the guy.” Montgomery says it was the closest he came to snapping during his Iwo Jima ordeal. Others weren’t so lucky. Some 21,000 Japanese troops occupied the island in a vast ...

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