He survived the trial by fire at Iwo Jima 80 years ago. He now lives with his daughter, Becky, in Bellevue. “I wanted to go into combat and see what it was like, see if I could handle it ...

"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the battle ended, he wrote, "You can tell ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time ...

A few hours after the U.S. Marines gained a foothold on the island, war supplies are being unloaded from Coast Guard and U.S. Navy landing crafts onto the shore of Iwo Jima, in February 1945.