Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Credit: AP Cram, who landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, spent the first night in a foxhole ... Joe Rosenthal showing six Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi 80 years ago.

(WTNH) — Dignitaries from the federal government, military officials, and families of those killed in the World War II battle of Iwo Jima traveled ... The flag raising was captured in an iconic ...

"Watching them reenact the raising of the flag reminds us that the legacy of Iwo Jima isn’t just history, it’s a torch being passed to the next generation." At the event, flags donated by ...

In honor of her grandfather, she was going to make every second count on Iwo Jima. It was the only day ... On top of Mount Suribachi, where the flag raising immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s ...