WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — With veterans watching on, a bronze sculpture honoring the World War II battle of Iwo Jima was lifted ...
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Robinson served with the Army during World War II before famously breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Frederick J. Ricard, a 19-year-old Marine from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was killed in action on March 14, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Ricard's death came just four months after his ...
Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...
He survived the trial by fire at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. He now lives with his daughter, Becky, in Bellevue. “I wanted to go into combat and see what it was like, see if I could handle it ...
"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the battle ended, he wrote, "You can tell ...
No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the history of ...
CENTRAL — The Battle of Iwo Jima was 80 years ago, when the U.S. captured the strategically located Pacific island after a five-week campaign running from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. The eventual ...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time ...