SAN ANTONIO — Nearly eight decades after U.S. Marines raised the flag at Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War ...
In 2021, seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo, Japan, caused two dozen “ghost ships” to rise from the ...
If you do the math, Jack Thurman was just a teenager when he witnessed — and took part in — a truly historic moment nearly 80 ...
Leo Case survived the battle of Iwo Jima and risked his life to save his crew during a clash in the South Pacific — only to ...
The headquarters of the 26th Tank Regiment, which was located near the village of Maruman, was moved to the eastern part of the island when the battle began. While Iwo Jima was being converted into a ...
This famous image was hardly the end of the battle. Iwo Jima would not be secure until March 26. Almost all of the 21,000 Japanese defenders elected to die rather than surrender. Rooting them out ...
The Marine Corps commemorates the Battle of Iwo Jima’s 75th anniversary in 2020, honoring the nearly 70,000 U.S. troops who invaded the island. Ukrainian missiles kill five in Russian city as ...
In a week where Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon — and launched a ground offensive in the ...
John Basilone (Jon Seda). The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa, as well as ...
He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," starring Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, and Paul Walker; and "Letters From Iwo Jima," starring Ken ...