No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the United States Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the ...

More than 70,000 Marines were ready to hit the 2-mile beachhead on Iwo Jima. Awaiting them were 22,000 elite Japanese ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...

Lt. Col. Joshua Chambers never knew his great-grandfather but grew up with family bedtime stories about Col. Justice Chambers and the troops he led in 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. One of 27 Marines ...

Bill Duke still has the small New Testament that he received courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt more than 60 years ago. The cover, embossed with the emblem of the United States Marine Corps, ...

Eddie Vincek landed on Iwo Jima about an hour after the first wave of Marines hit the beach. A member of 1st Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, it was his first taste of combat, he told an interviewer ...

DECATUR – More than 70 years after they met in a California camp while the Fifth Marine Division was being assembled during World War II to wrest a tiny home island called Iwo Jima from the Japanese, ...

GROESBECK, Texas (FOX 44) – A Groesbeck teenager was among twelve Young Marines from across the country who traveled to Guam and Iwo Jima to honor the 80th anniversary of the World War II Battle of ...

Editor's note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.