It became a symbol of triumph, but the moment the flag went up at Iwo Jima marked just the beginning of a brutal fight. Many of the men who raised it wouldn’t live to see the end of the war. Their ...

Clint Eastwood’s $65 million World War 2 box office bomb is given high marks for realism by a former Marine Corps special ops ...

A Final Landing on Iwo Jima Special | 57m 33s | CC A "then and now" look at the Japanese island at the heart of a brutal World War II battle. 05/15/2024 | Rating TV-PG Problems playing video ...

Photos of Marty Connor, along with one of his original 5th Marine Division patches, are propped in the black sand along one of Iwo Jima's landing beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World War II's bloodiest battles.

Hegseth landed on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto, the island where Japanese and American soldiers faced off in one of the war's fiercest battles.

For the 80th Reunion of Honor, seven WWII veterans will return to Iwo Jima and be joined by defense secretaries from the US and Japan.

On the landing craft that hit the Iwo Jima beach, Draper was in the same group as Marine Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian. Hayes died drunk in a ditch 10 years after the war.

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago ...

A campaign for these descendants to live on the island has been met with decades of resistance by the Japanese government.

On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would become over a monthlong brutal battle.