TOKYO -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal World War ...

TOKYO — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal World War ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

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. In Photos U.S.

Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. He entered the ranks of the 4th Marine Raiders and later the 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and went on to fight ...

IWO JIMA, Japan (Reuters) - I was told the slopes of Mount Suribachi sometimes run red with rust, like blood, from shells left from the battle for Iwo Jima but what struck me most was the tranquillity ...

IWO JIMA — The U.S. Marines will land on Iwo Jima and secure Mt. Suribachi Friday for the second time in 15 years. They will land this time on the island’s lone airstrip and ride up the mountain they ...

LAFAYETTE, La. - Norman Baker arrived at Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, the first day of the invasion. It was clear and sunny. "It was a beautiful day," he said, recalling his time as an 18-year-old ...