More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...

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 ...

Glen was born to Luther and Ella Norris and grew up in Greeley, CO working at Blackies Auto Parts, a family owned business, until joining the Navy at age 18. He served in the battle of Iwo Jima and ...

Duane Tunnyhill talks about the war in 2015 with a group of World War II veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima at the Bohemian ... Friday at Westlawn-Hillcrest Memorial Park in Omaha.

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines ... So there he was, slicing up his chocolate ration with a Ka-Bar and chopping it into a powder. Then he cut off ...

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.

CARLSBAD League of Women Voters holds celebration The League of Women Voters of North County San Diego hosts a birthday celebration at 2 p.m. Feb. 22 to mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of ...

With genuine volcanic sand from the sulphur island, the Praesidus Iwo Jima 80th Commemoration A-11 watches offer a rare ...

The Library of Congress has preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents sent into the field during the battles at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. The correspondents recorded everything from ...

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 ...