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Iwo Jima offered an important emergency airfield roughly halfway between the B-29 airbases at Tinian and Saipan and the distant Japanese mainland six flying hours away.
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The man (not named in reports from the time) sledgehammered his wall and found a tunnel behind it, and beyond that, more ...
Follow a veteran of the 4th Marine Division as he returns to Iwo Jima for the final time. We also chronicle a son who has spent decades trying to get details of his father's time on Iwo, with ...
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 and pillboxes on the 8-square ...
Photos of Marty Connor, along with one of his original 5th Marine Division patches, are propped in the black sand along one of Iwo Jima's landing beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background ...
IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. The visit ...
Kuribayashi had no illusions of victory on Iwo Jima. Yet he had a plan that he hoped would at least stall the Allies from making an invasion of Japan's home islands. Instead of foolhardy banzai ...
Hegseth landed on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto, the island where Japanese and American soldiers faced off in one of the war's fiercest battles.