Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

Mervin Nelson, 100, is one of four surviving World War II veterans who fought on the volcanic island of Iwo Jima in 1945.

The veterans met at the Iwo Jima Memorial, in New Britain, with the cutting of a birthday cake for the Marines 249th birthday. One of the Marine vets, in attendance, was 101 years old who actually ...

Another Marine from Seymour, PFC Walter Sokoli, who also had enlisted in 1944 at age 17, was fatally shot in the head on Iwo Jima on Feb. 24. Peter Senick was among the Marines held in reserve.

Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo and then worked for 35 years for the S.F. Chronicle, will get a block ...

"Specifically battles like Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa." Their code is what saved a group of 5th Division Marines on Iwo Jima. "They were pinned down, being shot at from three different directions.

In addition to the usual celebrations for veterans, the community rededicated its Iwo Jima Memorial ... of the famous World War II image of Marines raising the American flag on top of Mount ...

“It is a work of love. It has to be. That’s because I’m a marine — and marines were heavily involved in the Iwo Jima battle,” Raymond Carrier president of the Iwo Jima Memorial ...

"It's also the only monument in the world that has rocks from Mount Suribachi, under the Marines' feet, black sand from the beaches of Iwo Jima built into the base." Get top local stories in ...

Today, for a number of senior Marines the fight is intramural and about the future. And its understanding of itself, which is ...

Sherrod described as “a nightmare in hell.” The battle of Iwo Jima continued for another brutal 29 days. In the end, some 7,000 Marines and 17,700 Japanese soldiers lost their lives ...