The battle of Iwo Jima lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, ... Japanese soldiers used underground tunnels and resisted for five weeks, ...

The battle of Iwo Jima lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, ... Japanese soldiers used underground tunnels and resisted for five weeks, ...

Iwo Jima taught a Marine about love, a lesson ... but a determined and unrelenting Japanese force held their ground and fought from a series of underground tunnels against American forces for ...

The battle of Iwo Jima lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, ... Japanese soldiers used underground tunnels and resisted for five weeks, ...

Bergen returned to Iwo Jima for the 10th and 15th anniversaries of the battle and explored caves and tunnels where Japanese defenders had sheltered. About 18,000 Japanese troops died in the battle ...

Iwo Jima means “sulfur island” in Japanese, and Japan’s imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other defenses. The charred island smoldered.

The Battle of Iwo Jima began with an amphibious assault by Marines on Feb. 19, 1945, following months of aerial and naval bombardment. The Japanese had dug a defensive labyrinth of tunnels into ...

Historians put the American dead on Iwo Jima at 6,800, at least 10 of them from Lancaster County, according to “Lancaster County Heroes: World War II," which Lancaster Newspapers published in ...

After 36 days, the Marines secured Iwo Jima. A short time later, U.S. aircraft were able to use its runway, which—combined with the island’s proximity to the Japanese mainland—made it a strategic ...

IWO-TO, Japan — 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.