A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Mogami-class frigate has proven out its ability to conduct unmanned mine ...

Look for the U.S. Marine who is one of an estimated four remaining survivors of the battle of Iwo Jima in the parade at noon ...

Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

Follow a veteran of the 4th Marine Division as he returns to Iwo Jima for the final time. We also chronicle a son who has spent decades trying to get details of his father's time on Iwo, with ...

Photos of Marty Connor, along with one of his original 5th Marine Division patches, are propped in the black sand along one of Iwo Jima's landing beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background ...

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 ...

Half Japanese and half American, Hannah Beech has lived with the shadow of Iwo Jima for her entire life. Her father lived through the battle as a combat correspondent.

Joe Cappuccio, 99, a Marine Corps veteran of Iwo Jima, gives a thumbs-up as he makes his way to the front of Memorial Hall Wednesday at the final Iwo Jima Day ceremony at the State House.

Among Richard Jessor's mementos from Iwo Jima are a deactivated Japanese hand grenade he took home from the battle and a jar containing black sand from the beach where he landed.