On March 2, 1945, the 5th Marine Division was embroiled in the battle for Hill 362. The division would fight on Iwo Jima ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

One of the nation’s last living survivors of the Battle of Iwo Jima is still standing tall more than eight decades later. At ...

Peter MacDonald Sr. is one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. On the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, he explains what made the ...

Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined the Marine Corps, entering into the ranks of legends as a Marine Raider in the Pacific. He fought at ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

Alwyn Martinson, a 98-year-old veteran who served in the Pacific during World War II, was at Battle of Iwo Jima when the United States flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi during the final stages of ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hailed the “shared warrior ethos” between the US and Japan Saturday on Iwo Jiwa, where he attended a memorial service for those who died in the bloody and pivotal ...

Tokyo is reportedly planning to enhance facilities and station aircraft on the island, and establish a Pacific defence initiative office Japan is considering a significant expansion of its military ...