released a truly unique line of watches that contain black volcanic sand from Iwo Jima. In 2024, Praesidus honored the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France with a line of ...

Black sand from Iwo Jima was flown over to Los Angeles especially to be mixed into the cement. It’s there to this day.

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...