IWO JIMA: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...

"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima ... There were tanks blasting away. We could see the ...

At first a boat engineer, Scharfe became a coxswain, or boat operator, and was piloting an LST - landing ship tank - loaded with 36 Marines in the ship-packed waters off of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19 ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... like enemy tanks as “turtles.” The Pentagon’s “digital content refresh ...

Daniel Penny was honored Wednesday by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day in Boston — where ... But time — the undefeated killer — has left only a few veterans able to attend such ...

Wednesday's ceremony featured a performance from San Diego's Marine Corps Band and ... During the onset of the Iwo Jima invasion on Feb. 19, 1945, he guided a Marine tank through a minefield ...

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 ... in the tank battalion was ...

Armed with machine guns and walking through water on a beach, US Marine Corps invaded Iwo Jima on February 19 ... This unexpectedly light opposition allowed thousands of infantrymen, tanks, and ...

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 Harris.