Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Tinian was the Duvals' third battle. Their final stop was Iwo Jima, where the U.S. Marines' conquest was immortalized by photographer Joe Rosenthal's shot of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Mount ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...

With neither beauty nor bounty to its credit, the volcanic island of Iwo Jima entered ... their fight, on Mount Suribachi, the straining Marines raised the U.S. flag in a scene captured for ...

In this Feb 23, 1945, Associated Press photo taken by Joe Rosenthal, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. (Joe Rosenthal ...

Leighanna Mackey planted a flag atop Mt. Suribachi ... "Watching them reenact the raising of the flag reminds us that the legacy of Iwo Jima isn’t just history, it’s a torch being passed ...

A Harrison High School senior summitted to the top of Mt. Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, last week to honor the ...

Pfc. Ira Hayes, left, was one of the six Marines to appear in the famous World War II photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ depicting the second flag-raising on the summit of Mount ...

On Iwo Jima, the group climbed Mt. Suribachi - the scene of the flag raising by U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima - where the famous photo was taken during the battle. “They had a lot of old equipment on ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako today made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th ...

IWO JIMA: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to ...