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

Among the most brutal battles of World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of Iwo Jima began on February 19, 1945 and raged for 36 days, devastating the island stronghold. W. Eugene Smith ...

Memorial Day is all about parades, hot dogs, the Stars and Stripes and daylight baseball games. But it should be … and is … ...

In ancient Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia, “hobbit”-size humans shared the landscape with an immense bird. At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would ...

Best-known for its time in service and astounding range, the B-52 Stratofortress is the older brother of America's bomber force. The B-2 Spirit is known for its low-observable radar technology ...

"One, who never came home, (Jimmy Twedt), was fatally wounded on Iwo Jima during the invasion of the island.” Roland native Larry Ritland, now of Cedar Rapids, knew that Twedt was killed in Iwo ...

Iwo Jima, having no civilian population since the Second World War with a Japan Self-Defense Force garrison being its only inhabitants. Japan is now developing the island of Mageshima as a ...

Among them is U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Don Graves, a flamethrower who stormed the black sands of Iwo Jima with the 5th Marine Division in one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.

According to Pima Air & Space Museum, the planes flew cargo between Hawaii and the Pacific Islands to support the ... II and involved in the Battle of Iwo Jima. “It was taking wounded Marines ...

Having served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, the veteran recalled what it was like to fight for America on the beaches of Iwo Jima. And turning those memories into lyrics ...