Jimmy Twedt of Roland was just 17 when he signed up to fight in WWII. He is one of the fallen who will be remembered on ...

Naval aviators kicked off carrier-landing practice on Iwo Jima as the USS George Washington prepares for its first deployment ...

AFTER THE BATTLE In that span at the end of the war, he witnessed more history at Iwo Jima and learned about a catastrophic new bomb. On Aug. 5, 1945, the day before the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto, better known to the world as Iwo Jima, to honor the thousands of soldiers who perished there in fierce fighting 80 ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time," he said ...

From Iwo Jima, the Allies could launch aerial bombing runs to Japan and have a safe place for Allied planes to make unscheduled landings. Beginning in June 1944, the Allies bombed Iwo Jima ...