Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of ...

BOYNTON BEACH — Like many combat veterans, Greg "Doc" Emery gives the same answer when he's asked if he thinks about the buddies he lost. "Every day." Two years later, he watched the "stirring" site ...

A Marine pressed his face into the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, knowing that lifting his head would draw the fire of the reinforced blockhouse cutting the beach to pieces. Around him, wrecked gear ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) -- Two heroes who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima were honored Saturday during a special 75th-anniversary ceremony. Aboard the Battleship New Jersey along a calm Delaware River, it ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert Van Camp carried a small American flag in his pocket as he led a 4th Marine Division mortar section inland from Blue Beach during the February 1945 Battle ...

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...

Tony Cappa remembers lying on a beach at Iwo Jima on Feb. 20, 1945, the second day of what would become one of the Marine Corps’ bloodiest battles. “We were taking a little bit of rifle fire and the ...

The Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire is one of the most seismically unstable regions in the world. Dotted with towering volcanoes and consistently troubled by earthquakes, it’s also the birthplace of an ...

" Flag raising on Iwo Jima," 23 February 1945 (Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press, now in the National Archives) Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima in Japan met for the first ...

A group of Iwo Jima veterans and their families are on Guam touring historical military sites before they take a day trip to Iwo Jima on March 23. The veterans arrived on Guam earlier this week to ...

CAMDEN —Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima met for the first time on its 75th anniversary at a ceremony aboard another of the battle's veterans—the Battleship New Jersey.