“And it’s so good to see you hear and we are just so gratitude for all of you so thank you very much from the USS Iwo Jima ...

Alfred Lewis, a WWII veteran who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, opens a birthday gift from the crew of the USS Bougainville during a ceremony for Lewis at Singing River Island in Pascagoula on ...

Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa ... military planners on both sides used casualty figures to construct their strategies.

Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus ... despite enduring more than 24,000 casualties, including 6,140 deaths.

Iwo Jima was the only US Marine battle where American casualties exceeded those of the ... native who died in the sinking of the submarine USS Shark on Oct. 24, 1944. More from Stories Behind ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi ... highest price for 58 hours of ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II ... On Saturday, crew members of the USS Bougainville and others gathered on Singing River Island just across the ...