U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S.

A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. The Marine Corps was founded 250 years ago today.

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago. Troops ...

The famous photo of US marines hoisting the flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima has been erased from the Pentagon website - AP/Joe Rosenthal A commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of Iwo Jima has ...

DUMFRIES, Va. — A 100 year-old World War II veteran and Marine tank driver reunited with the tank that once carried him through the Battle of Iwo Jima, rekindling his memory of one of the fiercest ...

Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate, deadly ...