A 102-year-old U.S. Navy veteran has died while reportedly on his way to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France. Honor Flight Rochester, a veterans' group supporting Persichitti in past ...

A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day commemoration event in France. Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on ...

Eight-and-one-half months later on Feb. 19, 1945, there was another D-Day. This time the landing was on a small island named Iwo Jima, and the beaches were composed of salt-and-pepper colored volcanic ...

A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. The Marine Corps was founded 250 years ago today.

WWII hero commemorates D-Day sharing his story fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum speaks one-on-one with WWII veteran Ronald Scharfe who fought in the battle of Iwo ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the United States Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the ...

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...

Dr. James Hal Neal Jr. only remembers tidbits of a remarkable day that has been captured on film, in movies and in history books -- two American flags being raised on Mount Suribachi after hard ...

Staff Sgt. Alvin Joesphy Jr.'s voice from Iwo Jima is insistent, but collected. It rings through time with bell-like clarity. "An American dive bombing attack is taking place just ahead of us on the ...