“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 ...

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 ...

Marines blasted out a cave on a hill on Iwo Jima. Confined to an island then less than eight square miles, about the size of a busy international airport today, the Americans and Japanese were ...

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 vast ...

The series of Statehouse remembrance services ended on the 80th anniversary of the day the U.S. Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, starting a 36-day battle that left around 7,000 ...

The descendants of fishermen and farmers evacuated from Iwo Jima shortly before it became the site of a key battle during World War II have stepped up their campaign to be permitted to live on the ...

But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest ...

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 resulted ...

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 ...

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 ...