Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

For the 80th Reunion of Honor, seven WWII veterans will return to Iwo Jima and be joined by defense secretaries from the US ...

When George Washington left office at the end of his second term, he left America with perhaps the most prescient lesson for the nation’s future on Sept. 19, 1796 in his famous farewell address to ...

“People outside the Marine Corps don’t realize how intense that battle was,” he said ... which was fresh off the conquest of Tinian and Saipan in the western Pacific. He was assigned ...

My dad was a Marine first ... The bloody battle would go on for months. The Silent Second would leave Okinawa after two days, their job done. They would go back to Saipan to get ready to invade ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

Diehl and his regiment participated in the capture of Saipan, which was officially ... Iwo Jima was the only U.S. Marine battle where American casualties exceeded those of the Japanese.

Delta’s Normandy Legacy Flight continues to support a first-of-its-kind program that flies World War II veterans and students to Normandy to commemora ...