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.
SAN ANTONIO — Nearly eight decades after U.S. Marines raised the flag at Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, five of them reunited at San Antonio's Menger Hotel to reconnect and ...
VANCOUVER Wash. (KPTV) - A Vancouver teen was one of 12 Young Marines invited to visit the location of a major World War II battle along with World War II veterans. Young Marine Sergeant Major ...
Wednesday marked the 25th and final time Marine Corps veterans, Gold Star families and state lawmakers will gather in the State House to mark the anniversary of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the ...
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80 Years Ago, U.S. Marines Engaged in Bloody Battle at Iwo Jima
America’s World War II generation is referred to as “The Greatest Generation.” But if one had to nominate a particular group ...
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United States Marines found hope with an illegal weapon on Iwo Jima
During World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima exposed a brutal problem for U.S. Marines: Japanese bunkers, tunnels, and ...
With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time, only to be ...
College Station, Texas (KBTX) - The Bryan-College Station community gathered on Sunday to honor a pivotal moment in US history as the George HW Bush Presidential Library & Museum hosted a solemn ...
BOULDER, Colo. — Sunday marks 80 years since U.S. Marines captured Mount Suribachi and hoisted the American flag at Iwo Jima. The move was a symbol of hope and freedom during a tough battle and a long ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — had a block in downtown San ...
CANYON — On a cool Saturday morning in Palo Duro Canyon, more than 20 teams of wrestlers, Marines and community members tightened their shoelaces and adjusted flagpoles for a climb meant to echo one ...
NORFOLK, Va. — The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group is set to deploy from Naval Station Norfolk and Camp Lejeune, N.C., this week. The group recently completed the Composite Training Unit Exercise, ...
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