the US Navy and the Japanese Ministry of Defense confirmed that US naval aviators assigned to the USS George Washington would conduct field carrier landing practice (FCLP) on Iwo Jima (also known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Ramm served as a Navy corpsman in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He tended to the wounded on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... few World War II heroes with us, willing to share their story.

In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields ...

Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on ...

This World War II battle lasted 36 days and resulted in the United States Marines and Navy capturing ... soldiers made on Iwo Jima. “They were there, and all of us as Americans must be there ...

Staff Sergeant Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us ...

Iwo Jima embodies “our shared devotion to the nation, and to duty and our shared reverence for the men of valor who preceded us,” continued ... Charles Cram, a Navy corpsman, was shot in ...

“Iwo Jima embodies our shared warrior ethos, our shared devotion to the nation, and to duty and our shared reverence for the men of valor who preceded us ... Cram, a Navy corpsman who ...