At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans, a diminishing cohort in the state ...
The Iwo Jima photo, which depicts U.S. Marines hoisting the American flag in Japan in March 1945, symbolizes the American war effort in the region just months before the end of the World War II.
Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 12:38 PM EST The Battle of ...
An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...
To this day, that event remains the largest loss of life the Marine Corps has suffered since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World ...
Gentile survived the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II and, along with other survivors, helped build the National Iwo Jima Memorial that stands tall today in Newington. "It's the only ...
Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He looks at the bombing raids in ... portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags ...