At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans, a diminishing cohort in the state ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son ... Tokyo metropolitan government to commemorate the war dead on Iwoto. “We ask for continued efforts to return ...

"The first thing that comes to mind is all the dead bodies," the Marine veteran ... specifically honoring "those who fought and died in the Battle of Iwo Jima." Another veteran recalled having ...

Gentile survived the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II and, along with other survivors, helped build the National Iwo Jima Memorial that stands tall today in Newington. "It's the only ...

John Kinsel Sr. was one of hundreds recruited during WW2 who became responsible for transmitting messages based on the Navajo's native language.

I was a stunned witness to the last moment of peace in America and her first moment of war,” Charles Sehe said in 2015 ...

If you do the math, that means he was just a teenager when he witnessed — and took part in — a truly historic moment nearly ...

Luxury ocean-liner company Cunard pays tribute to veterans by welcoming them aboard transatlantic voyages on its ship the ...

FILE – U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima ... of a 36-day battle that had him stepping over the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers ...