One of the most intense and iconic battles of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima pushed both sides to their limits. In this video, I explore the strategy, the brutal conditions, and the lasting ...

The volcanic ash dragged Franklin Sousley down as he staggered off the landing craft. That February 19, 1945, on the beaches ...

“Truly, memories of the tragic Battle of Iwo Jima have faded away through generations,” Kiyoshi Endo, 82, chairman of the Iwo Jima Veterans Association, said at the joint U.S.-Japanese ceremony.

At 19, Willhite drove Lucky — one of only six confirmed Iwo Jima Sherman tanks in existence today — ashore the black sands of Red Beach II on Iwo Jima with the 5th Tank Battalion in 1945.

He and thousands more Americans were unloaded on Iwo Jima's black-sand beach, then faced a blistering assault from the entrenched Japanese. It took the Americans 36 days to take the island.

As for Iwo Jima, Nesbella said he didn’t spend much time thinking about over the past 72 years. “After all these years, I don’t think about it,” he said. “It was too much of a horror.

When U.S. Marines hit the beaches during the invasion of Iwo Jima in World War II, the smell of dead Japanese soldiers rotting was nearly overwhelming. Walter Graham, now 87, of Brush, encountered ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

The annual symposium, held this year at the Outrigger Guam Beach Resort, celebrated the 74th anniversary of the commemoration of the landing on Iwo Jima. It will include a memorial service on Iwo ...