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U.S. Marines Get Some Trigger Time At Sea • USS Iwo Jima

U.S. Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a live-fire marksmanship range aboard ...
PBS

A Final Landing on Iwo Jima

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 little ...
Post and Courier

The Flag Raising of Iwo Jima

This month is the 76th anniversary of the Marine Corps landing on the Japanese held island of Iwo Jima. It is also the anniversary of the most famous photograph of World War II, and perhaps one of the ...
The New York Times

The Battle of Iwo Jima: A History

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.
Stars and Stripes

Battle of Iwo Jima veteran reunites with tank he drove 80 years ago: ‘That tank was my life’

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 ...