Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

Their mission was to capture the island's three airfields, eliminate a Japanese early warning station that was tipping off mainland defenses to incoming B-29 raids, and establish an emergency landing ...

Eddie Vincek landed on Iwo Jima about an hour after the first wave of Marines hit the beach. A member of 1st Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, it was his first taste of combat, he told an interviewer ...

With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time, only to be ...

A campaign for these descendants to live on the island has been met with decades of resistance by the Japanese government The ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...