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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

4th and 5th Marine divisions, the Army’s 147th Infantry Regiment and the Navy’s 5th Fleet,” the DOD wrote. The Battle of Iwo Jima took place from Feb. 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945 with heavy ...

He was finally sent back to his unit on the Big Island in Hawaii, where the 5th Marine Division went back to Camp Tarawa to train for the anticipated invasion of Japan after Iwo Jima. When the war ...

In this Feb 23, 1945, Associated Press photo taken by Joe Rosenthal, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. (Joe Rosenthal ...

A Harrison High School senior summitted to the top of Mt. Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, last week to honor the ...

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.

One of 27 Marines awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II, Justice left a four-generation legacy of service that is still going strong. Now a ...

With neither beauty nor bounty to its credit, the volcanic island of Iwo Jima entered history with ... the straining Marines raised the U.S. flag in a scene captured for posterity in a famous ...