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When Tony went to Panama during World War II as a chief photographer’s mate for the Navy, Dickey headed that way too – as a credentialed photographer. She later went to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At ...
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 ...
Following a 23-year U.S. occupation, Iwo Jima was returned to Japan in 1968 as part of the Ogasawara island group, but is now home to only 380 service members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.
About 70,000 American troops fought at Iwo Jima from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, as the U.S. tried to take control of a key strategic point to advance to mainland Japan.
In this photo provided by the Iwo Jima Association of America, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth greets veterans including Charles Cram, Hegseth is shaking hands with, a former Marine, who ...
Cram and six other veterans are returning to Iwo Jima, now known as Iwo To, on Saturday for the 80th Reunion of Honor, which commemorates one of the war’s bloodiest battles. Around 170 people ...
In February 1945, Bergen watched from the deck as battleships bombarded Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima. “I had never seen a battleship,” he said. “When they fire their guns, the whole ship ...
U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.
Joe Cappuccio, 99, a Marine Corps veteran of Iwo Jima, gives a thumbs-up as he makes his way to the front of Memorial Hall on Wednesday at the final Iwo Jima Day ceremony at the State House.
One of the Troops. At 19, Dickey married War Photographer Tony Chapelle, who taught her camera craft. The couple saw little of each other during World War II and were eventually divorced.