In February 1945, U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima expecting a difficult but relatively short fight. Instead, they encountered ...

Iwo Jima was small, but it was not fragile. Before the Marines landed on February 19, 1945, Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi had turned the island into a defense in depth. Instead of relying ...

TOKYO (AP) – An American search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the iconic flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have ...

IWO JIMA, Japan (AP) -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the ...

SCOTTSBORO - Jimmie Tanner of Scottsboro said he thought he'd never see his wife and children again when he and thousands of other Marines landed at Iwo Jima in February 1945. Tanner, 86, a two-time ...

DEAR MR. WEEKS: — Our ampty transport vessel with its deck-load of beaten-up landing craft is rolling heavily on the long voyage home from Iwo Jima. To provide quarters for casualties, the sick bay ...

ROCK ISLAND - It was Feb. 23, 1945, and Marine Corps Pfc. John Elliott, of Rock Island, had already tasted death enough to know he didn't want any more. Hunkered in a foxhole, he already had survived ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN and author of the new book, “IN BLOOD, FLOWERS BLOOM: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations,” which ...

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...