The invasion of Iwo Jima, known as Operation Detachment would see the USMC undertake a huge amphibious invasion of the ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...

After weeks of fierce fighting, even battle-hardened U.S. Marines were “sitting on the ground, hands to their faces, sobbing their hearts out.” Among the most brutal battles of World War II in ...

More than 50 years later, the Rosenthal photograph would again inspire architects who designed Quantico’s National Museum of the Marine Corps. From the angle of the second flag being raised ...

they fought as Marine infantrymen at Guadalcanal. Later Worth became an officer and commanded a team of military dog handlers in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was an eyewitness to the iconic flag ...

Having served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, the veteran recalled what it was like to fight for America on the beaches of Iwo Jima ... Marines planting the flag on top ...

Let’s give thanks to those who gave all in Iraq and Afghanistan, bordering on forgotten wars though they’re our most recent.

Originally from Detroit, he enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 ... topped with a figurine of the famous raising of the flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, he posed for dozens of pictures ...