CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) -- Two heroes who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima were honored Saturday during a special 75th-anniversary ceremony. Aboard the Battleship New Jersey along a calm Delaware River, it ...

Tony Cappa remembers lying on a beach at Iwo Jima on Feb. 20, 1945, the second day of what would become one of the Marine Corps’ bloodiest battles. “We were taking a little bit of rifle fire and the ...

From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great amphibious invasions of World War II were made possible by a humble plywood boat. Known more prosaically as the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), the ...

William Leverance, 85, of Orlando, Fla., overlooks the beach where he came ashore to fight in 1945 from atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, about 700 miles southeast of Tokyo on Friday IWO JIMA, Japan (AP ...

Pvt. George Coe Browning is finally coming home. Nearly 80 years after the Marine went missing in action missing during the bloody invasion of Iwo Jima, the former Bergen County resident will be laid ...

A group of Iwo Jima veterans and their families are on Guam touring historical military sites before they take a day trip to Iwo Jima on March 23. The veterans arrived on Guam earlier this week to ...

Enemy fire riddled the Navy landing craft on Feb. 19, 1945, as Petty Officer 2nd Class Oscar Thomasson steered it toward an Iwo Jima beach during the initial wave of the invasion of the Japanese ...