The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with ...

US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...

"An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the Japanese who are holed up in the northern edges of the island," he narrates, as one of the most ferocious battles of WWII ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

The USS North Carolina is more than just a steel beast with an impressive record from a bygone war. It’s a time capsule: a ...

As a member of the Signal Company, 4th Marines, Harris made an astounding five amphibious landings during the Pacific War: Roi-Namur (Kwajalein), Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Born in ...

With World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific ... which was fresh off the conquest of Tinian and Saipan in the western Pacific. He was assigned as a replacement in the headquarters company ...

In the final phase of the Pacific War, the U.S. military launched fierce ... other bombers stationed in the Mariana Islands including Saipan, as well as the air units deployed in Okinawa, and ...

“The island had been under severe bombardment from U.S. aircraft and our Navy ships offshore,” says Jessor ... and later it did the same for a war-weary American public at home, when the image of ...