Capt. James T. Kolb of Company A, 147th Infantry, assisted by Sgt. Keogh, uses a flamethrower against dug-in Japanese troops on Iwo Jima, April 20, 1945. Relieving Marine Corps units, the Soldiers of ...

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.

In the Pacific War, Japanese commanders expected American troops to be well equipped but vulnerable to exhaustion, night ...

Claude Duval, left, and his brother Stanwood served together in the U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima in World War II. Their story is the centerpiece of the Brookshire Military Museum's exhibit, 'LSU ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Today in History: ...

America’s World War II generation is referred to as “The Greatest Generation.” But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Marine Corps says it has begun investigating whether it mistakenly identified one of the men shown raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in one of the iconic images of World ...

Dorothy Duval Nelson, left, and her son Lee Nelson look at the neatly arranged military-issued items in the trunk Claude Duval carried with him during World War II. Claude Duval was Dorothy Nelson's ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Claude Duval's head was pounding, his joints were aching, and exhaustion had set in. He was suffering from a mix of mosquito-induced dengue fever, effects from the medical treatment for it and a fresh ...