In honor of her grandfather, she was going to make every second count on Iwo Jima. It was the only ... she said with a smile — one of his 5th Marine Division patches, and the small prayer ...

Charles Cram spent his first night on Iwo Jima alone in a foxhole ... Cram, a Navy corpsman with the 5th Marine Division, landed on the island with U.S. forces on Feb. 19, 1945.

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 ...

The poster was the crucial marketing image of the war’s most successful bond drive, worth $26 ... Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo ...

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo helped raise $ ... the 5th Marine Division went back to Camp Tarawa to train for the anticipated invasion of Japan after Iwo Jima.

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 ...

A month of intensive fighting on Iwo Jima from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, resulted in the successful capture ... said 13 years ago he remembered the events of Iwo Jima when his unit, the 5th Marine ...

This week we’re asking about the battle of Iwo Jima, which concluded 80 years ago. Wednesday: Major Howard Connor, an officer of the 5th Marine Division, once said: “Were it not for the ...

Who directed both? Wednesday: Major Howard Connor, an officer of the 5th Marine Division, once said: “Were it not for the Navajos, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.” What was their ...

He was part of the 5th Marine Division and fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima until the island was secured on March 26, 1945. The photograph of the flag raising during the Battle of Iwo Jima is one ...