Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the ...

Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus, a Marine Corps first lieutenant who died on March 8, 1945, at the age of 29 ...

The WWII veterans who left the island […] The post WWII Veteran Gets Surprised On His Flight With Heartwarming Announcement ...

Young Marine Sergeant Major Tristian Begines recently visited Guam and Iwo Jima to honor the 80th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima. In the group were 10 Young Marines of the Year from the ...

Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said, “Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code ...

GROESBECK, Texas — A Groesbeck teen joined eleven other Young Marines who made the trip to Iwo Jima this spring to honor the 80th anniversary of the WWII battle that took place there.

(KRON) — A teenager who lives in Fremont was among twelve Young Marines who traveled to Iwo Jima, Japan to honor the 80 th anniversary of the WWII Battle of Iwo Jima. Akshaya Krishna and 11 ...

Honoring our 6,821 fallen U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima were eleven 2024 and 2025 Division Young Marines of the Year from across the U.S. as well as Mackey who is the recipient of the Jimmy Trimble Award.

Iwo Jima, for one, will take a lot of patient cultivation. After 23 years, it still remains a desolate battlefield, where hulks of landing craft and shell casings jut from the black volcanic sand.

Harter also made it to one of the landing beaches, sitting on the hot, rocky, black volcanic sand ... corpsman who landed with the 5th Marine Divison on Iwo Jima, was there in person with his ...