His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...

A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.

But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest Generation,” then the troops who fought at Iwo Jima certainly have to be ...

Meanwhile, as the Marines advanced, they sometimes came across the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers ... After 36 days, the Marines secured Iwo Jima. A short time later, U.S. aircraft were able to use ...

William "Buck" Myers reunited with a fellow veteran in 2005 and continues to keep his memory alive on the 80th anniversary of ...

In Photos U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945.Credit...Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press Supported by By ...

He was initially buried on Iwo Jima, but his body was moved to Roseland Cemetery in Monticello. As part of the ceremony, attendees listened to a recording of Thomas’ CBS radio interview with Don ...

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...

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 ...

Monticello native Earnest "Boots" Thomas, sitting in the foreground holding a rifle, was part of the first unit photographed raising a flag after the battle of Iwo Jima. Thomas was killed eight ...