On February 19, 1945, the Marines landing on Iwo Jima found themselves fighting the island before they could properly fight the enemy. The shoreline was not ordinary sand. It was loose volcanic ash ...

With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time, only to be ...

A famous depiction of American World War II history is now on display near the living garden at Pine River Public Library in Bayfield. Ignacio artist Ross Mickey created a metal depiction of the ...

FILE - U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 23, 1945. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File) In this image provided by the U.S. Marine ...

Lt. Col. Joshua Chambers never knew his great-grandfather but grew up with family bedtime stories about Col. Justice Chambers and the troops he led in 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. One of 27 Marines ...

TRIANGLE, Va. (7News) — Over its 250-year history, the Marine Corps’ most iconic moment arguably occurred in February 1945, with the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. A photo from that day is now ...

Robert Patrick shares the story of veteran Donald Graves on the 2025 National Memorial Day Concert. Robert Patrick shares the story of U.S. Marine Corps veteran Don Graves, a flamethrower who stormed ...