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Recently digitized footage shows the Marine assault on Iwo Jima during World War II, including prepping equipment, arriving on the island and raising the flag. (U.S. Marine Corps History Division ...

Eighty years ago, on the black volcanic sands of Iwo Jima, one of the most brutal battles of World War II unfolded. The fight ...

By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima, which began Feb. 19, 1945, was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, as former Cpl. Don Graves knows firsthand and ...

The sand of Iwo Jima continued to flake out of his skin like bits of black pepper for the rest of his long life, said his friend Jerry Boganowski, the commander of the Marine Corps League’s ...

Eighty years ago this week, tens of thousands of Marines, along with tens of thousands of other personnel from the Navy and ...

Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus, a Marine Corps first lieutenant who died on March 8, 1945, at the age of 29 ...

The Library of Congress has preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents sent into the field during the battles at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. The correspondents recorded everything from ...

Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 were killed and more than 24,000 wounded. Almost 6,000 of the ...

The Marine Corps may finish runway repair work in the ... ‘Defending our country was our duty’: Iwo Jima veteran recalls the battle ahead of 80th anniversary Don Graves, one of 18 from his ...

More than 40 reels of combat footage were used to bring to life the bloodiest conflict in the history of the US Marine Corps in this PBS film about the World War II battle for Iwo Jima Documenting ...