WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – An emotional reunion between a WWII veteran and the tank he drove on Iwo Jima. The Museum of the ...

The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part ...

Amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) left Norfolk Va., Thursday, the first time a U.S.-based Amphibious Ready Group with ...

Sailors and Marines assigned to the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) ...

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit depart Thursday from Naval Station Norfolk and Camp ...

Thursday morning, Sailors and Marines with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) will deploy from Naval Station Norfolk.

Today the only inhabitants are about 400 Japanese soldiers. The 1945 battle for Iwo Jima pitted some 100,000 U.S. troops against 22,000 Japanese deeply dug into a labyrinth of tunnels and trenches.

Iwo Jima survivors recall 1945 battle WASHINGTON -- It was 70 years ago Thursday, during the Second World War, that U.S. forces began a bloody but successful battle to capture the Japanese island ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World ...

Iwo Jima is not a place, we complained to one another, where you feel you're allowed to complain. We went out into the deep, steep-pitched, sucking sand of the D-Day landing beaches.

Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 were killed and more than 24,000 wounded.

Iwo Jima vet James Scotella recounts raising of American flag It was the morning of Feb. 19, 1945 and 19-year-old Corporal James Scotella had his orders: to invade the island of Iwo Jima.