Reflecting on the past These days, Jessor keeps some mementos on his work desk to remind him of his time on Iwo Jima: a deactivated Japanese hand grenade he took home from the battle and a jar ...

HITTING THE BEACH Lee landed on Iwo Jima on March 7. "We were marked up to be sent in on the third wave to hit the beach at Iroquois. I had shot my carbine just 45 times. Boy, were we trained men ...

Feb. 19, 1945, they landed on Iwo Jima. As they reached the shore, the Japanese were firing heavily at the Americans advancing. "I hit the beach, looked over to my left and there was a Marine ...

France with a line of commemorative watches containing sand from Utah Beach or a piece of metal from a D-Day C-47 Skytrain. The Iwo Jima A-11 watches build the collection with a shift in focus to ...

Marines land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 ... Navy said everything was fine to go and it wasn’t. The mess on the beach was beyond comprehension,” Harris told Military Times.

But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest Generation,” then the troops who fought at Iwo Jima certainly have to be ...

And then there is experience that comes with standing in the “black sand” of Red and Green Beach on Iwo Jima. There too, he said, a U.S. Marine will “feel it.” “You will hear the waves ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, one of World War II’s most decorated Marines, received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross ...