Iwo Jima flag-raiser Marine Sgt. Michael Strank, who spent his childhood living in Franklin Borough, will be honored Saturday as a posthumous member of the National Czech and Slovak Museum & ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – As a Conemaugh Valley-based Marine Corps League marked the 81st anniversary of the Iwo Jima flag raising, ...

A local high schooler just returned from the trip of a lifetime. Abby Smith, from Fort Mitchell, was one of a select few to escort World War II veterans at the Battle of Iwo Jima's 80th anniversary.

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) pulls into Naval Station Mayport, April 6, 2026. U.S. military forces ...

HARLINGEN — Veterans, local government officials, the military academy and others gathered Thursday to celebrate the start of construction on a new museum next to the historic Iwo Jima Monument at the ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Nils Mockler, a veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima, marked his 100th birthday surrounded by family, friends and fellow ...

A photo from that day is now enshrined as a famous monument, but the Marines who were on the island remember it differently.

Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...

Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and planted the Stars and Stripes atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the Volcano Islands is the focus of another pitched ...