Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II Memorial for a brief ceremony. Men who witnessed one of the toughest fights in American history: the Battle of Iwo Jima.

80 years ago, six marines raised a United States flag over the Japanese volcano island of Iwo Jima. Many veterans held a celebration at the Legacy of Liberty WWII Memorial Park at the Shangri-La ...

They are part of the Greatest Generation and survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. As their numbers ...

With just one Iwo Jima veteran present at the ceremony ... Cappuccio walked up to the front of Memorial Hall and encouraged the veterans who came after him to lead an active lifestyle.

These Japanese prisoners of war, most of them captured on Iwo Jima, would eventually be sent to Pearl Harbor. My father, like many veterans of ... the Marine Corps War Memorial, Mr. Rosenthal ...

The retired iron worker shared that he had lived a full life after leaving Iwo Jima alive, and he had some advice to offer his fellow veterans. “Do what you have to do, but you gotta keep moving ...

The man wearing a red US Marines hat hobbled toward the podium in the Massachusetts State House Memorial ... Iwo Jima after enlisting in 1943 at age 18. Cappuccio was one of three World War II ...