Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

In the 80 years since the bombardment, nature had been busy reclaiming Iwo Jima. If Harter wanted to climb to the top of Mount Suribachi and step on the famed landing beaches, she had just around ...

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The LHD abbreviation stands for Landing Helicopter Dock. Ships like the Iwo Jima are multipurpose amphibious assault vessels that operate primarily as helicopter carriers. They also have a ...

An IndiGo flight 6E 5324, carrying 225 passengers from Jaipur to Mumbai, made an emergency landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport around 8:50 pm on April 7 following a bomb threat.

The visit by the royal couple, both born after the war, is the first to Iwo Jima. Naruhito, in his 65th birthday remarks in February, noted the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII and stressed the ...

IWO JIMA: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...