Frank S. Wright, who served in the 4th Raider Battalion in the Pacific during World War II and fought at Guadalcanal and Iwo ...

Marine veteran Duane Tunnyhill of Bellevue, a survivor of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, observes a moment of silence during a Veterans Day event at Omaha’s Memorial Park in 2004.

Capt. Richard Haley relieved Capt. Brian Hamel as USS Iwo Jima’s (LHD 7) 18th commanding officer during a ceremony, June 13th ...

Iwo Jima survivors, from left, Bob Boyd, Vocelka, John Dickinson, Tunnyhill and LeRoy Hanson. Vocelka returned to Nebraska soon after the end of World War II, while Tunnyhill stayed in the Marines ...

It's possible to see both museums in one day, but consider breaking up the visits with another nearby Virginia site, perhaps George Washington's Mount Vernon home or Arlington National Cemetery and ...

President Harry S. Truman presents the Medal of Honor to Marine Corps veteran Justice Chambers for gallant action on Iwo Jima, Nov. 1, 1950. (Abbie Rowe/National Park Service) ...

Then, at merely 17, he would prove to be made of the stuff of legends while storming the beaches of Iwo Jima.

Marines initially invaded Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, as part of the U.S. island-hopping campaign in the Pacific, and it took four days to gain the summit of Suribachi, according to a Department of ...

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...

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 ...

The series of State House remembrance services ended on the 80th anniversary of the day the U.S. Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, starting a 36-day battle that left around 7,000 ...