U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. About 27,000 men were killed, including 20,000 Japanese soldiers hiding in tunnels and burrowed in caves ... a mile inside Jap lines ...

“Both types of bombardment had been going on for quite some time, and the sense was that Iwo Jima could be taken in three or four ... waiting for us—pulled their artillery out of the caves and had ...

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked ... who defended the island through a series of caves, tunnels and pillboxes. Yet the photo from four days into the battle remains ...

Some of the Iwo Jima recordings are so vivid, it sounds as if the war is playing out inside your brain, with sniper fire and bombardments frighteningly audible in the background. The battle ...

Iwo Jima is Japanese for “sulfur island,” and the Japanese Imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other defenses. The charred island smoldered. Its bluffs and beaches became a ...