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 ...

This weekend, Clint Eastwood's 33rd film Jersey Boys, will be released in theaters. He's one of American cinema's most prolific directors—those 33 films span just 43 years—he's won a slew of awards, ...

The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2004.