Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines ... Sitting in a fox hole with two other Marines on the fifth week of the battle, he said, Graves decided to make ...

Jack Lummus' heroism dwarfed anything he did for the Giants in his short time with the franchise, but they never forgot his ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the ...

Recently digitized footage shows the Marine assault on Iwo Jima during World War II, including prepping equipment, arriving on the island and raising the flag. (U.S. Marine Corps History Division ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. The assault by U.S. Marines in February 1945 on the small island—just eight square miles of volcanic rock—cost ...

“But the Marines took Iwo Jima.” This month, Rosenthal, who died in 2006, is being honored in San Francisco, where he lived for most of his life: Officials have renamed a downtown block of ...

U.S. Marine Corps Archival Footage: 27th and 28th Marines Embarkation at Iwo Jima Recently digitized footage showing Marines loading onto LST with supplies on equipment and waiting on the beach ...