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Trump stuns after sharing photo of captured Venezuelan president

President Donald Trump shared a stunning photograph Saturday of what appears to be Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on ...

What is the USS Iwo Jima? Ship taking Nicolás Maduro to New York

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro arrived NYC to face criminal charges. Here's what to know about the ship that helped bring ...
The New York Times

The Battle of Iwo Jima: A History

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S.
PBS

A Final Landing on Iwo Jima

Follow a veteran of the 4th Marine Division as he returns to Iwo Jima for the final time. We also chronicle a son who has spent decades trying to get details of his father's time on Iwo, with little ...
Stars and Stripes

Hurricane forces return of Iwo Jima ARG to Norfolk just 5 days after deployment

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group returned stateside earlier this week as a hurricane in the western Atlantic Ocean threatened high winds and large swells along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The ...
Altoona Mirror

A Hike Through History: Local duo produces film on Iwo Jima

Jared Frederick stands at the base of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Frederick produced “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual WWII Battlefield Tour,” a documentary on YouTube during a visit to Iwo Jima alongside ...
NPR

The Battle of Iwo Jima began 80 years ago. Listen to recordings from the front lines

Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...
Military Times

This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima

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.
CNN

In 1945, her grandfather stormed the black sand beaches of Iwo Jima. 80 years later, she’s retracing his footsteps

Editor’s Note: Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN and author of the new book, “IN BLOOD, FLOWERS BLOOM: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations,” which ...
CU Boulder News & Events

That iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima? CU prof, then a Marine, saw it happen

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Eight decades later, Marine (and distinguished professor) to revisit Iwo Jima

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...
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Battle of Iwo Jima

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Turning point WWII battle on Iwo Jima; B-29 bombers and the iconic photo explained by Col. Dave Severance; US Marine casualties The Battle of Iwo ...