JAMES CITY — Months after its founder’s death, the completion of the planned Iwo Jima Memorial Park in James ... “I went to Georgia to pick it up and trailered it here myself,” Waltrip ...
The Semper Fi Barn, a veteran’s retreat in Pickens County, will hold a memorial for the next five weeks in honor of the 80th ...
“It’s important because it changed World War II,” said Marine Corps veteran Raymond Carrier, with the Iwo Jima Memorial ...
With genuine volcanic sand from the sulphur island, the Praesidus Iwo Jima 80th Commemoration A-11 watches offer a rare ...
Everyone recognizes the image of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. But what do you know about the place we were actually fighting for? s a memorial to ... Marines woke up on their first morning ...
More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...
A Marine infantry battalion moves up to relieve another battalion during the fierce struggle for Iwo Jima in February 1945 ... which his mother accepted on Memorial Day later that month.