COLUMBIA — When tens of thousands of U.S. Marines landed on the 8-square-mile Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945, some troops carried and operated cameras. Some 50 Marines, known officially as combat ...

As photographer Joe Rosenthal stood on Mount Suribachi that day, aimed his Speed Graphic at the American flag, and froze a moment in history, Marine Corps Sgt. Bill Genaust’s movie camera was already ...

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island ...

RICHFIELD, Minn. — Chuck Lindberg doesn’t act in the new Clint Eastwood movie, "Flags of Our Fathers," but he’s the star of the credits, anyway. The Richfield man, the last survivor among the Marines ...

I commend The Edmond Sun for printing James P. Pinkerton’s Newsday article “Remember what U.S. soldiers did on Iwo Jima” in Thursday’s edition. The film “Letters from Iwo Jima” portrays Japanese ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the most brutal of World War II. 28,000 of the 90,000 combatants died either defending or trying to take the 8-square-mile island. Most remember only the iconic ...

Goodrich’s stay on Iwo Jima ended 15 days later when an enemy machine gun round passed through a letter from a pen pal he had stuck in his shirt pocket and entered his intestines. He lost three and a ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

AMC has bought the cable-TV rights to Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima” and will schedule it as a primetime special event on Feb. 16. Ed Carroll, president of Rainbow Entertainment Services, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Turning point WWII battle on Iwo Jima; B-29 bombers and the iconic photo explained by Col. Dave Severance; US Marine casualties The Battle of Iwo ...