Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

A World War II museum in Connecticut has opened a new exhibit honoring veterans, including those who fought in the Battle of ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, thousands of U.S. Marines fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II: the Battle ...

The Wasp¬-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is set to begin a modernization program at Norfolk Naval ...

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 ...

Pinned down and with casualties mounting, Pvt. Wilson Watson took matters into his own hands to savagely take out enemy ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

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 ...

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka Oforah, 21, declared dead after reportedly falling overboard from USS Iwo Jima during Caribbean operations last week.

A 21-year-old Marine from Florida was declared deceased on Feb. 10 after falling overboard from the Norfolk-based USS Iwo ...