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

He said he and other members of the trip were able to go into the network of caves dug on the island. The anniversary ceremony on Iwo Jima included a 21-gun salute and a speech by Navy Secretary ...

The New Jersey native commanded the 6th Marine War Dog Platoon, which participated in the battle for Iwo Jima in February and ... on a perilous voyage to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.

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 ...

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

After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...

In the dead of night in late September of 1917, islanders asleep along Corn Neck Road were awoken in their sleep by an ...

The magnitude of D-Day -- the 150,000 Allied service personnel who participated, the 4,415 Allied troops killed, the 12 countries that were part of the invasion -- is plain for everyone to see ...

On September 11 we remember the sacrifices of U.S. citizens and service members on the day that is forever burned into our hearts and minds. As the towers fell, the Pentagon burned and the ...