Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate, deadly ...

More than 1,000 American flags were placed on the lawn of the memorial this year. Each flag was dedicated by loved ones of ...

February 23 marks the day the United States Marines raised America’s flag over Mount Suribachi in Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima almost 80 years ago. The moment has been immortalized in a famous ...

Jared Frederick stands at a memorial on top of Mt. Suribachi. He teaches history at Penn State Altoona and is the host of the new documentary “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual World War II Battlefield Tour ...

A member of the Fairfax County School Board called the Battle of Iwo Jima "unfortunate" and "evil" during a school board meeting on Thursday. School board member Abrar Omeish was discussing the Day of ...

College Station, Texas (KBTX) - The Bryan-College Station community gathered on Sunday to honor a pivotal moment in US history as the George HW Bush Presidential Library & Museum hosted a solemn ...

Jared Frederick stands at the base of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Frederick produced “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual WWII Battlefield Tour,” a documentary on YouTube during a visit to Iwo Jima alongside ...

CANYON — On a cool Saturday morning in Palo Duro Canyon, more than 20 teams of wrestlers, Marines and community members tightened their shoelaces and adjusted flagpoles for a climb meant to echo one ...

It wasn't Verona. It was San Angelo. They weren't the Capulets and Montagues. They were named Falcon and Zuniga. But the two big Mexican American families in San Angelo were rivals, Margaret Atcheson ...

Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and planted the Stars and Stripes atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the Volcano Islands is the focus of another pitched ...

On Veterans Day, dozens of people came together to honor veterans at the National Iwo Jima Memorial in Newington. It was a tradition that began almost 30 years ago, thanks to a man named Dr. George ...