News

Iwo Jima is with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group conducting Amphibious Squadron Marine Expeditionary Unit Integration ...
The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), (PHIBRON) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)—all part of the Iwo ...
LISBON, N.D. (Valley News Live) - At the North Dakota Veterans Home in room D121 lives a 101-year-old World War II veteran.
Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...
Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.
William Abner Gatlin, PFC, U.S. Army, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Gatlin, Rt. 3, Andalusia, has been reported as missing in action. He was fighting with Gen. Patton’s Army in Germany. James M. Taylor, ...
"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima ... quarter mile from the 5th Marine hospital and cemetery ...
Honoring our 6,821 fallen U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima were eleven 2024 and 2025 Division Young Marines of the Year from across the U.S. as well as Mackey who is the recipient of the Jimmy Trimble Award.
As of Tuesday, April 1, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries has discontinued its Highly Migratory Species Catch Card Program. Federal HMS Angling, HMS ...
Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima ... 2d Battalion, 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division as part of the V Amphibious Corps ...
The operation was planned to take take 4 days, but after weeks of fighting it would be the following month when Iwo Jima was declared secure and firmly in the hands of the U.S. Marines.
Hegseth landed on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto, the island where Japanese and American soldiers faced off in one of the war’s fiercest battles. He joined several American veterans who survived ...