Rupert Wingfield-Hayes looks at the site of the Battle of Iwo Jima, 70 years after American forces landed there. BBC Homepage. ... Iwo Jima: Inside famous battle tunnels, 70 years on ...

“We really didn’t know what to expect,” he said. Inhabited only by a small contingent of Japanese troops, Iwo Jima is an open grave. The U.S. officially took the island on March 26, 1945 ...

After Iwo Jima was declared secured, the Marines estimated there were no more than 300 Japanese left alive in the island's warren of caves and tunnels. In fact, there were close to 3,000.