The AN/M2 was fitted as defensive armament on many US Navy aircraft used in the Pacific ... they could take with them as they advanced from Iwo Jima’s beaches and moved deeper into the island.

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified ... was one of the six flag-raisers, not Navy hospital corpsman John Bradley.

Per the U.S. National Archives, the shipwrecks are the remains of transport vessels captured by the U.S. Navy. Since Iwo Jima ...

Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 were killed and more than 24,000 wounded. Almost 6,000 of the ...

"The ship honors United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant John ... He was killed in action during the February 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

Seventy-five years ago today, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism — making him the first and only ...

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II ... team of military dog handlers in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was an eyewitness to the iconic flag-raising ...

Whipple, 99, fought in the Pacific during World War II and earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded by a mortar shell upon landing on the island of Iwo Jima. But he wanted to get right back to ...

Cpl. Jesse Thomas Bopp pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2023 shooting of a fellow Marine, 19-year-old Lance ...

who single handedly destroyed Japanese pillboxes on Iwo Jima with a flamethrower. Mitchell assumed command of the vessel’s Gold Crew on Nov. 20, 2022. The ship sustained what the Navy described ...