A look at Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

Private First Class Robert "Lucky" Leckie is one of the three main characters of The Pacific. He served in the 1st Marine Division, seeing action in all its major campaigns until halfway through Peleliu as a scout and a machine gunner serving in How company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, before being transferred to 2nd Battalion intelligence, and later back to How Company. Leckie was born on December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The day after the attack on P

A look at Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

The Battle of Iwo Jima was more than just another strategic island fight in the US military’s struggle with Imperial Japan during World War Two. It was

[Photo] US 4th Marine Division cemetery, Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945

ON this day in photos: February 23, 1945: US raises flag over Iwo Jima. Joe Rosenthal took the wonderful picture as the U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raised the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi. This picture won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945....

“There they battled up Iwo Jima’s hill, Two hundred and fifty men But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again. And when the fight was over, And