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

Aso's family were farmers living in the Motoyama district on Iwo Jima. Their land was later taken over by the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force to make way for an airfield. "It took a long time for ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

American forces landed on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima. The small island would become the central location of some of the heaviest combat in World War II. It held a strategic position for the US ...

The Americans had already driven a third of the way inland to pierce the defences of the main airfield. Admiral Chester W Nimitz had announced that marines who landed on Iwo Jima had established a ...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Providence Academy –  a Pre-K–12 “classical Christian school” ...