BOYNTON BEACH — Like many combat veterans, Greg "Doc" Emery gives the same answer when he's asked if he thinks about the buddies he lost. "Every day." Two years later, he watched the "stirring" site ...

William Leverance, 85, of Orlando, Fla., overlooks the beach where he came ashore to fight in 1945 from atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, about 700 miles southeast of Tokyo on Friday IWO JIMA, Japan (AP ...

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...

Jack Thurman, a veteran of World War II who landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima in 1945, turned 99 years old Friday, an occasion marked by distinguished guests including Larimer County Commissioner John ...

LVTs retracting from the Iwo Jima beaches after landing the initial waves of Marines, during the morning of Feb. 19, 1945. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is in the right-center. Navy Photo Iwo Jima was “what ...

Dozens of U.S. veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, returned to the remote volcanic island of Iwo Jima on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's fiercest battles. The veterans, ...

" Flag raising on Iwo Jima," 23 February 1945 (Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press, now in the National Archives) Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima in Japan met for the first ...

Tony Cappa remembers lying on a beach at Iwo Jima on Feb. 20, 1945, the second day of what would become one of the Marine Corps’ bloodiest battles. “We were taking a little bit of rifle fire and the ...

Two dozen World War II-era ships in the water just off the island’s black-sand beaches were photographed from above and reported Oct. 18 by the All-Nippon News Network. Although the ships have ...

From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great amphibious invasions of World War II were made possible by a humble plywood boat. Known more prosaically as the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), the ...

The poem “In Flanders Fields” makes my Aunt Nancy cry. It reminds her of her 18-year-old brother, who was killed at Iwo Jima. It was written by Canadian doctor and soldier John McCrae, after he buried ...

DEAR MR. WEEKS: — Our ampty transport vessel with its deck-load of beaten-up landing craft is rolling heavily on the long voyage home from Iwo Jima. To provide quarters for casualties, the sick bay ...