One of the most intense and iconic battles of World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima pushed both sides to their limits. In this ...
J. Dennis Robinson tells the story of John B. Robinson, his 102-year-old father, and his role at the Battle of Iwo Jima ...
A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on Iwo Jima," Henry Diedrich recalled of that February morning in ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the ...
Jack Thurman, Marine veteran and Loveland resident who was on the beaches of Iwo Jima during World War II, was a fighter, his daughter, caretaker and best friend Karen Thurman said. When he lost his ...
Dorothy Duval Nelson, left, and her son Lee Nelson look at the neatly arranged military-issued items in the trunk Claude Duval carried with him during World War II. Claude Duval was Dorothy Nelson's ...
Marine veteran Leighton Willhite, 100, visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in August to see the tank he drove at Iwo Jima for the first time since World War II. Marine ...