But the ceremony to honor the Marine with the nation’s highest medal for valor was unique in more ways than one. At the age ...

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 ...

When describing the Battle of Iwo Jima, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz recalled: (QUOTE) “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.” ...

(Tribune News Service) — Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S.

The Iowa Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge in Johnston is hosting an event Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Goldstar curator Mike Vogt says a presentation at 10:30 a.m.

Naval aviators kicked off 13 days of carrier-landing practice Monday on Iwo Jima as the aircraft carrier USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment since returning to Japan in November.

Read up on the latest Sands of Iwo Jima News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold ...

Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and planted the Stars and Stripes atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the Volcano Islands is the focus of another pitched ...

The brothers reunited on Iwo Jima, and Walter warned Harold about what awaited. I've taken my family to 5 major steakhouse chains in the US. We enjoyed most, but one is the best by a landslide.