David Greene almost didn’t live to see his 20th birthday, let alone his 101st. He died April 17. It could have happened 81 ...

The Japanese defending Iwo Jima on D-day displayed superb tactical discipline. As Lieutenant Colonel Justus M. ‘Jumpin’ Joe’ Chambers led his 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, across the first terrace on ...

The two Marines, part of the elite unit that was famously tasked with capturing Mount Suribachi, served as Honorary Grand ...

Charles “Chuck” F. Bahde — a soldier who stormed ashore with the Marines on Iwo Jima, designed popcorn machines and helped erect the Ocean Beach pier — has died in Rancho Sante Fe after a battle with ...

BOYNTON BEACH — Like many combat veterans, Greg "Doc" Emery gives the same answer when he's asked if he thinks about the buddies he lost. "Every day." Two years later, he watched the "stirring" site ...

LVTs retracting from the Iwo Jima beaches after landing the initial waves of Marines, during the morning of Feb. 19, 1945. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is in the right-center. Navy Photo Iwo Jima was “what ...

The following unattributed article was originally published in the Camp Lejeune Globe in 1956, on the 16th anniversary of the landing on Iwo Jima. A great American armada lay off the ash-laden beaches ...

Pebble Beach >> America lost another World War II veteran recently when John Torchia, the former Marine medic who was at the Battle of Iwo Jima and was one of two surviving members of his unit, died ...

Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi knew Japan could not stop the United States from taking Iwo Jima. Instead of ...