At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt days later seeing Old Glory raised high.

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Private 1st Class Harold Gonsalves received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions during the Battle of ...

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

Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...

Suribachi during the battle of ... people looked at us and we sure didn’t look like officers,” Wells said. Wells said he went from Officer Candidate School at Quantico to Marine Parachute ...

“I was drafted and two of us were pulled out of the draft ... The flag, he said, was raised by six U.S. Marines becoming a famous image of the battle and the American war effort in the Pacific.

It was one of the deadliest battles in the Marine Corps history,” said Major General ... Patrick Zilliacus told us it’s his hope that history’s blood-strewn path reminds us that peace ...

The event featured performances by the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Marine Corps Color Guard.

U.S. Marines during training last month ... which were built after the United States stormed Okinawa during a bloody battle in 1945.