With World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific, Robert Boyd’s widowed mother wasn’t too keen on letting her 17-year-old son join the Marines. He had quit high school for a union job to ...

Pam Brown doesn't remember much about her dad. A sailor in the Pacific during World War II, he missed her birthdays and Christmas. And she missed him. She recalls running away at 4 years old and ...

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.