Mount Suribachi stands like a sentinel on guard over Marines of the Fifth Division who died in the conquest of Iwo Jima as their comrades paid homage to them on Memorial Day of 1945. The day's ...

which left about 7,000 Marines dead and more than 19,000 wounded. The Iwo Jima statue, which was cast in Italy and paid for by Cliff Guertin, sits on a trailer at the backside of the hill off Neck ...