On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...
Sunday marks 80 years since U.S. Marines captured Mount Suribachi and hoisted the American flag at Iwo Jima. The move was a ...
Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off mainland defenses to incoming B-29 raids, and establish an emergency landing ...
Thomas Begay, a Marine veteran and Navajo Code Talker, was chosen as the grand marshal of the 81st Iwo Jima Flag Raising ...
Today, our Nation commemorates the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima—a monumental struggle that advanced the cause of victory in the Pacific ...
February 23 holds a special place in history. It saw the siege of the Alamo in 1836. Martial law was declared in Kabul in ...
By March 3, U.S. forces controlled all three airfields on the island, and on March 26 the last Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima were wiped out. Only 200 of the original 22,000 Japanese defenders were ...
Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...
Sarah Sweeney, the executive director of the Military Friends Foundation in Swampscott, was honored last week at the Massachusetts State House as a part of the state’s Iwo Jima Remembrance Day ...
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