Marine Cpl. Leighton Willhite saw the M4A3 Sherman tank, nicknamed “Lucky,” for the first time in 80 years at the National ...

A 100-year-old veteran reunited with “Lucky”—a tank he drove in 1945 during World War II on Friday—the 80th anniversary of ...

Amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) left Norfolk Va., Thursday, the first time a U.S.-based Amphibious Ready Group with ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – An emotional reunion between a WWII veteran and the tank he drove on Iwo Jima. The Museum of the ...

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit depart Thursday from Naval Station Norfolk and Camp ...

Sailors and Marines assigned to the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) ...

The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials ...

More than 4,500 sailors and Marines are assigned to the group, which includes the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo ...

Iwo Jima survivors recall 1945 battle WASHINGTON -- It was 70 years ago Thursday, during the Second World War, that U.S. forces began a bloody but successful battle to capture the Japanese island ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima lasted five weeks, with the United States capturing the island at its conclusion. About 70,000 Marines fought in the battle, compared to 21,000 Japanese forces.

Today the only inhabitants are about 400 Japanese soldiers. The 1945 battle for Iwo Jima pitted some 100,000 U.S. troops against 22,000 Japanese deeply dug into a labyrinth of tunnels and trenches.

Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima in Japan met for the first time on its 75th anniversary at a ceremony aboard another of the battle’s veterans — the Battleship New ...