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U.S. Marines from the 22nd MEU (SOC) and Sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) are participating in joint exercises in the ...

Look for the U.S. Marine who is one of an estimated four remaining survivors of the battle of Iwo Jima in the parade at noon ...

Capt. Richard Haley relieved Capt. Brian Hamel as USS Iwo Jima’s (LHD 7) 18th commanding officer during a ceremony, June 13th ...

The Norfolk-based USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is named for the historic World War II battle in the Pacific. It was built at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was commissioned in 2001.

English references haven't adopted the new reading of 硫黄島. Can be read as Iwojima or Iwoto. The US will likely keep the old name from WWII, lest they have to rename The USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2 Assault ...

His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a recent phone interview ahead of this month’s 80th Reunion of Honor ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (Feb. 21, 2025)–Sailors assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) meet with surviving veterans from the Battle of Iwo Jima during an event commemorating ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate ...

Personnel Specialist Seaman Dylan Lotshaw, of Jasper, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) participated in a damage control drill on the ship's mess decks while ...

Naval Surface Force Atlantic confirmed last week that the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was forced to return to Naval Station Norfolk following “a non-propulsion ...