A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

With rakes and shovels in hand, students were hard at work in the area around the Iwo Jima monument. “We’re going to take out all the leaves out of the stones, clean up the leaves, make it ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son, Kentaro, wants to finally bring his father home. Kunizo Iwai is one of the more than 10,000 Imperial Japanese Army ...

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified, the US Marine Corp says. The famous picture was taken by the Associated Press after ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

"It's the only monument in the world built by battle survivors," said Raymond Carrier, president of the Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation. "It's also the only monument in the world that has ...

The veterans met at the Iwo Jima Memorial, in New Britain, with the cutting of a birthday cake for the Marines 249th birthday. One of the Marine vets, in attendance, was 101 years old who actually ...

Connecticut has a particularly close tie to the battle of Iwo Jima and its survivors. State veterans raised money for a statue of the flag-raising and a memorial park, dedicated in New Britain ...