Clint Eastwood's film, Flags of Our Fathers, dramatizes the battle for the island of Iwo Jima in World War II. American soldiers throw grenades and shoot flames into the openings of tunnels dug into ...

In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields, the US ...

It’s been more than 60 years since six war heroes hoisted the American flag over Iwo Jima, but Clint Eastwood’s epic film “Flags of Our Fathers” brought images to those too young to recall the bloody ...

NEW YORK - In making a movie about U.S. Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood became concerned that he was telling only half of the story. So he made another movie. Flags, which tells the ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought for more than a month in a rocky 8 square mile area lined with underground tunnels that sheltered and supplied the Japanese. Here's a look at some of the most ...

Eighty years after the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, Leighton Willhite traveled to the National Museum of the Marine Corps’ support facility in Virginia for a reunion, of sorts, with the ...

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 ...

A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. The Marine Corps was founded 250 years ago today.