With genuine volcanic sand from the sulphur island, the Praesidus Iwo Jima 80th Commemoration A-11 watches offer a rare ...

Iwo Jima is not a place, we complained to one another, where you feel you're allowed to complain. We went out into the deep, steep-pitched, sucking sand of the D-Day landing beaches. Thirty ...

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 ...

He turned 19, digging a foxhole in the black sand. Many of his fellow Marines never lived to see their 19th or 20th birthdays ...

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

This was Iwo Jima, “Sulphur Island,” a vital steppingstone to the invasion of Japan. At dawn, Feb. 19, 1945, the first 26,000 of 70,000 Marines came ashore. They met little resistance – nothing like D ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

The Iwo Jima memorial site of the only one of its kind in the world because it was built by those who survived the battle.

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 ...

It also embedded black sand from the volcanic island deep in his body. 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 ...

The Iowa Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge in Johnston is hosting an event Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Goldstar curator Mike Vogt says a presentation at 10:30 a ...