Shots from three rifles rang out this morning at the Marine Corps League in the Sunnyside section of Staten Island, as a small group marked the 62nd anniversary of the Invasion of Iwo Jima. Several ...

FEB. 19, 1945 -- UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, (Monday) -- (AP) -- Iwo Jima's coastal defense were further shattered Sunday in the third straight day of bombardment of the ...

Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

Iwo Jima Day marks the anniversary of the date in February 1945 when the Battle of Iwo Jima began, with the invasion of Iwo Jima island by the United States Armed Forces. Some of the bloodiest ...

It’s strange that just a few hours of one day, nearly 80 years ago, would loom so largely over a person’s life. But for Topekan Jim Freel, those few hours were life changing, and world impacting.

For Stamford’s Charlie Guinta, having participated in the fiercely fought World War II Battle of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific, wasn’t enough; 77 years later he had to visit the site of an even bigger ...

Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, and that’s what it looked like from the deck of the Pensacola. So, what Diedrich and many others saw on the morning of Feb. 23, the fifth day ...

GLOVERSVILLE — Feb. 20, 1945 was the second day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, a five-week U.S. invasion of the island during World War II. Ambrose “Cowboy” Anderson of Gloversville, who died late last ...

A school board member in Fairfax County, Virginia is under fire after she claimed the Battle of Iwo Jima was "unfortunate" and "evil." Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Abrar Omeish has since ...

On Saturday, my wife was going through some old papers and found a letter her cousin Bob Terese had written to his parents on March 22, 1945 — almost precisely 70 years ago. He was a Chicago kid, 20 ...

(Tribune News Service) — Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen ...