"You can read into that in the letters they sent home." Gregory tells their story in the yearlong exhibit, "LSU Commemorates Iwo Jima's 80th Anniversary: Honoring the Legacy of the Duval Brothers." ...

"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the battle ended, he wrote, "You can tell ...

While vastly outnumbered, the Japanese troops knew much more about the territory's landscape -- after all, Japan had claimed Iwo Jima as its own since 1875 -- and had been preparing for the ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday "praised American-Japanese friendship and trust" while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal World War II ...

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. He joined several American veterans who survived ...

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth commended the enduring friendship between the United States and Japan while attending a memorial on Iwo Jima to honor the sacrifices made during a key World War II ...

While 80 years have passed since the end of organized fighting on Ioto, widely known as Iwo Jima, during World War II, the son of a Japanese soldier killed in the battle is continuing efforts to ...

The tiny island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean lies around 1,250km from Tokyo and was the scene of five weeks of brutal combat between Japanese and US forces in World War II. “I’d like to ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal ...

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In this photo provided by the Iwo Jima Association of America, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth greets veterans including Charles Cram, Hegseth is shaking hands with, a former Marine ...