23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally Eighty years later, Richard Jessor vividly recalls hitting the beach on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. “The island had been under severe bombardment ...

HITTING THE BEACH Lee landed on Iwo Jima on March 7. "We were marked up to be sent in on the third wave to hit the beach at Iroquois. I had shot my carbine just 45 times. Boy, were we trained men ...

And then there is experience that comes with standing in the “black sand” of Red and Green Beach on Iwo Jima. There too, he said, a U.S. Marine will “feel it.” “You will hear the waves ...

Feb. 19, 1945, they landed on Iwo Jima. As they reached the shore, the Japanese were firing heavily at the Americans advancing. "I hit the beach, looked over to my left and there was a Marine ...

France with a line of commemorative watches containing sand from Utah Beach or a piece of metal from a D-Day C-47 Skytrain. The Iwo Jima A-11 watches build the collection with a shift in focus to ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up ...

Marines land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 ... Navy said everything was fine to go and it wasn’t. The mess on the beach was beyond comprehension,” Harris told Military Times.

In Photos U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945.Credit...Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press Supported by By ...

A 19-year-old Waynesboro area Marine who lost his life during the World War II assault on Iwo Jima 80 years ago is being remembered by Stories Behind the Stars. Pfc. Frederick J. Ricard was born ...

Alwyn Martinson, a 98-year-old veteran who served in the Pacific during World War II, was at Battle of Iwo Jima when the United States flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi during the final stages ...