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

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 ...

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 ...

After eight years of hard work and dedication, John Shortridge and his team of volunteers watched a shared vision come to fruition on Veteran’s Day at Memorial Park. The long-fought-for Iwo Jima ...

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.

19, 1945, preceded by a nine-month campaign of air raids and naval bombardment to soften the landing for the U.S. Marine Corps. Diedrich's battle of Iwo Jima began on the morning of Feb.

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

“It’s important because it changed World War II,” said Marine Corps veteran Raymond Carrier, with the Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation. “When that flag went up on ...

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 ...