Photos of Marty Connor, along with one of his original 5th Marine Division patches, are propped in the black sand along one of Iwo Jima's landing beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background ...

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 ...

The veterans, some in wheelchairs, flew to the island on a chartered airliner and fanned out across its famous black-sand beaches, where the U.S. invasion began on Feb. 19, 1945, and lasted 36 days.

Gedeon thought he had seen the worst. Not quite. On Feb. 19, 1945, Gedeon went over the side of his transport ship, the USS Wayne, onto a Higgins boat just off the beaches of Iwo Jima. He and his ...

Lt. Cmdr. Dan Landerholm, left, a landing signal officer, and Lt. Cmdr. Philip Chitty, a Naval Forces Japan spokesman, observe field carrier landing practice on Iwo Jima, Japan, on May 25, 2025.