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During World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima exposed a brutal problem for U.S. Marines: Japanese bunkers, tunnels, and ...

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The US used the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima – one of the Navy's most important multi-purpose warships – in the ...

This video tells the story of a Japanese general who prepared an island defense unlike any other in World War II. Knowing ...

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Maduro was detained in Caracas along with his wife and flown by helicopter to the USS Iwo Jima before being transferred to ...

On March 3, 1945, James Huston Jr., a 21-year-old pilot from Pennsylvania, took off from the Navy escort carrier Natoma Bay on a mission to strike transport vessels and was shot down by the Japanese ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a copy of Harold Raskin's typewritten diary "Blind Landing on Iwo Jima," kept during his time as part of the Army ...

‘Uncommon valor was a common virtue on Iwo Jima," Adm. Chester Nimitz once said. About 100,000 Marines —many of them collegiate All-Americans — landed on the tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific ...