The Library of Congress has preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents sent into the field during the battles at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. The correspondents recorded everything from ...
Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...
Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus, a Marine Corps first lieutenant who died on March 8, 1945, at the age of 29 ...
Letters from Iwo Jima was the first American film to depict a war issue completely from the view of an American enemy.
He made a brief appearance as himself in the John Wayne film, "Sands of Iwo Jima," and frequently met with politicians to protest discrimination against Indigenous peoples in America. But Hayes ...