For decades, people talking about what probably is West Palm Beach's oldest home repeated the story — that the original owner ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...

A Blair County man who lost his life in the Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized by the nonprofit Stories Behind the ...

The battle resulted in the loss of more than 6,000 ... The last recordings in the collection were made in 1945, and included audio from Saipan, Guam and Okinawa as well as Iwo Jima.

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima ... Roi-Namur (Kwajalein), Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Born in Jersey City, New ...

Jonas Bender is a former Yellow Springs resident who became one of the first Black Marines. He was stationed at Funafuti and ...

US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...

Close to 7,000 Marines were killed in the 36-day battle.” Meanwhile, as the Marines advanced ... “What was happening was that our bombers were leaving from Saipan or Tinian, and some of those bombers ...

“People outside the Marine Corps don’t realize how intense that battle was,” he said ... which was fresh off the conquest of Tinian and Saipan in the western Pacific. He was assigned ...