U.S. forces suffered more than 26,000 casualties at Iwo Jima, including about 6,800 killed, of which 5,931 were Marines.

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

A Marine Raider from Cincinnati, missing since a WWII firefight in 1943, was recently identified through DNA analysis.

In the winter of World War II, Germany unleashed its most powerful tanks in a final attempt to break the Allied advance. Led by elite Waffen-SS units and commanders like Joachim Peiper, the offensive ...

A historian will lecture on the Battle of Peleliu, where US Marines suffered their largest number of casualties in WWII.

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Reporter’s Notebook: This week marks the 80th anniversary of the famed Battle of Iwo Jima. Some of the men who braved those shores are in town to mark this key turning point ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...