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. Naruhito and his wife ...

The Japanese were entrenched in miles of underground caves and tunnels ... the Japanese mainland. Iwo Jima, or Sulfur Island in Japanese would become one of World War II's most horrific battles.

U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers marched side-by-side over the weekend on Iwo Jima, where their predecessors fought one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ... of tunnels into the island ...

But a World War II battle 80 years ... kind of caged combat. Iwo Jima is Japanese for “sulfur island,” and the Japanese Imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other defenses.

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. Naruhito and ...

But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II ... combat. Iwo Jima means “sulfur island” in Japanese, and Japan’s imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other ...