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

The operation was planned to take take 4 days, but after weeks of fighting it would be the following month when Iwo Jima was declared secure and firmly in the hands of the U.S. Marines.

Now a Marine himself, Joshua is an operational planner for Marine Corps Forces Pacific at Camp H.M. Smith in Hawaii. One of his great-grandfather’s stories — about landing on Iwo Jima on Feb ...

Robert Boyd Jr. begged his widowed mother to let him join the Marines during World War II before he turned 18. He survived the trial by fire at Iwo Jima ...

On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would become over a month long brutal battle.

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. ... Roughly 70,000 American soldiers fought to take Iwo Jima. More than 6,500 were killed.

The 36-day long battle for control of a heavily fortified pacific island, fought from the 19th of February through the 26th of March, 1945, has become such a significant part of Marine Corps lore ...

So, the fact Iwo Jima had a landing strip on it was important for that reason, as well as serving as a base for the projected attack on Tokyo.” But the victory came at a tremendous cost to the Marines ...

The operation was planned to take take 4 days, but after weeks of fighting it would be the following month when Iwo Jima was declared secure and firmly in the hands of the U.S. Marines.

Two Marines in the Marine Corps’ 5th Division cemetery on Iwo Jima pay their respects to a fallen comrade. United States Marine Corps Film Repository, USMC 101863 (16mm film frame) When most ...