a former Giant who served in the Marine Corps and was killed during World War II in the Battle of Iwo Jima. (Bill Kostroun/AP Photo) News of Lummus' death hit the Giants hard. "Jack was a real ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Iwo Jima was only 750 miles from mainland Japan ... "We would go up into the hills and put the dead Marines onto trucks and take them back down to the beach. I was round 20 years old at the ...

Roughly 7,000 Marines were killed and another 20,000 wounded in the fighting. Nearly 18,000 Japanese troops were killed. Five years ago, about 230 U.S. veterans of Iwo Jima were still alive ...

An artwork saluting both the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps and the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo ...

Iwo Jima was one of the toughest campaigns for the United States Marine Corps. From Feb. 19-March 26, 1945, some 6,821 men ...

The Marine still goes to the gym daily ... More than 6,800 Americans and 20 thousand Japanese were killed in the 36-day battle for Iwo Jima, which was considered a turning point in the last ...

Hegseth landed on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto ... point to advance to mainland Japan. Nearly 7,000 Marines and about 20,000 Japanese were killed. More than half of the remains of the Japanese ...

Charles Cram, a Navy corpsman who landed with the 5th Marine Divison on Iwo Jima, was there in person with his granddaughter, Holly Cram, 42. It was the first time Charles Cram, who turned 99 two ...

Marines raise the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945 ... captured the same moment on video. Genaust was killed March 4, 1945, by Japanese fire while clearing a tunnel,” DoD ...