CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The invasion of Iwo Jima was a challenge of mountainous proportions - in the shape of Mount Suribachi. It was a strategic stronghold that the ...

The Venezuelan president and his wife were flown out of Caracas by helicopter to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, a warship taking them ...

The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2004.

In a potential war with either Nicolas Maduro’s military and/or Venezuela’s massive, powerful drug cartels, the USS Iwo Jima would be instrumental in multi-phased operations. In the volatile landscape ...

Del Thielke recalls his dramatic time in the service as a veteran of WWII. Del Thielke is a Navy veteran born on November 9, 1923. He served as an aviation ordnanceman aboard the USS Shipley Bay ...

Area veterans who fought in the World War II battles of Peleliu and Iwo Jima are invited to join their comrades from around the region Sept. 15 at a dinner served in their honor. Bruce Cheek, ...