As photographer Joe Rosenthal stood on Mount Suribachi that day, aimed his Speed Graphic at the American flag and froze a moment in history, Marine Corps Sgt. Bill Genaust’s movie camera was already ...

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island ...

Fact-based fiction ruled this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" took home best film of the year honors. By Gregg ...

Fact-based fiction ruled this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" took home film of the year honors. By Gregg ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the most brutal of World War II. 28,000 of the 90,000 combatants died either defending or trying to take the 8-square-mile island. Most remember only the iconic ...

RICHFIELD, Minn. — Chuck Lindberg doesn’t act in the new Clint Eastwood movie, "Flags of Our Fathers," but he’s the star of the credits, anyway. The Richfield man, the last survivor among the Marines ...

John Wayne is usually associated with westerns, and they are great ones, like The Searchers, Rio Bravo, and True Grit. However, the acting legend also starred in a well-received movie about World War ...

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island ...

Sands of Iwo Jima follows Marine Sgt. John Stryker (Wayne), whose own men despise him as a result of his bad attitude and difficult training regimen. However, they begin to appreciate Stryker’s ...

COLUMBIA — When tens of thousands of U.S. Marines landed on the 8-square-mile Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945, some troops carried and operated cameras. Some 50 Marines, known officially as combat ...