With delivery of Iwo Jima in 2001, the Navy and Marine Corps reached a desired force level of amphibious warfare ships -- LHAs/LHDs, LPDs and LSD 41/49s -- that provide fully capable Expeditionary ...

Despite its superior technology and firepower, the Japanese destroyed the ship in 1941. The Missouri served in the Pacific theater in the assault on Iwo Jima and the Japanese islands before ...

In 2021, seismic activity from an underwater volcano near Tokyo, Japan, caused two dozen "ghost ships" to rise from the ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

the West Virginia protected the invasion beaches and took part in the last naval engagement between line-of-battle ships in War World II. After shelling Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Okinawa ...