In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

The National WWII Museum gives us a little background story that explains ... For the sake of fairness and balance, not all of the twenty-seven MOH recipients at Iwo Jima were Marines; five of them ...

Editor's note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020 ... "He was tough on us. He made us do things by the book and I am forever ...

“The island had been under severe bombardment from U.S. aircraft and our Navy ships offshore,” says Jessor. “Both types of bombardment had been going on for quite some time, and the sense was that Iwo ...

Private 1st Class Harold Gonsalves received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions during the Battle of ...

Alwyn Martinson, a 98-year-old veteran who served in the Pacific during World War II, was at Battle of Iwo Jima when the United States flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi during the final stages ...

Except her dad, Navy Petty Officer ... got the day off but not us. Although we did get two free beers!" By Jan. 3, 1946, Lee had left his fears behind at Iwo Jima and had sailed back to Pearl ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...

the Battle of Iwo Jima. The small island between the Marianas and mainland Japan was a strategic target for Allied forces ahead of a future US invasion of Okinawa. While the US initially ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020 ... “He was tough on us. He made us do things by the book and I am forever ...