Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...

supporting a fleet of B-29s heading for Japan on a bombing raid. Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima.

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

Jack Lummus' heroism dwarfed anything he did for the Giants in his short time with the franchise, but they never forgot his ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article was published on Feb. 19, 2015. Seventy-five years ago today, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and ...

Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah affiliate rammed his yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck through a chest-high concertina ...

After Iwo Jima was secured, the 4 th Division went to ... “So, when the (atomic) bomb was dropped, we were elated. It saved us from almost certain death. If we had to invade Japan, the 4 th ...

Sands of Iwo Jima This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima's beaches to the historic flag ...

He looks at the bombing raids in "Masters of the Air ... He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," starring Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach ...

Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa ... number of human lives affected by the two bomb blasts. — The American Experience ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...