Marine Cpl. Howard Hinson at the U.S. Marine Corps training camp in the Hawaiian Islands about 1942. Courtesy of the Hinson family During an annual North Miami Beach history tour, military buff Bruce ...

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 ...

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 ...

The assault on Iwo Jima was one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War, and it remains one of the most iconic moments of Marine Corps history. 6,800 U.S. troops died to seize Iwo Jima, and ...

Corporal Tony Stein landed on Iwo Jima carrying a handmade Stinger machine gun built from a salvaged aircraft weapon. Capable of firing roughly 1,200 rounds per minute, it gave him the firepower to ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Leverance, 85, of Orlando, Fla., overlooks the beach where he came ashore to fight in 1945 from atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, about 700 miles southeast of Tokyo on Friday IWO JIMA, Japan (AP ...