America invaded the Iwo Jima after the Japanese intercepted America’s bombs from the island. On Feb. 19, 1945, the U.S. Marines arrived to fight the 18,000 Japanese soldiers defending it.

This General Sherman tank was wrecked by a land mine and hit five times by Japanese artillery fire on Iwo Jima, but its Fourth ... Joe Rosenthal's image of soldiers planting an American flag ...

TOKYO — A photograph of a mass grave for Japanese soldiers who died on Iwoto island, formerly known as Iwo Jima, was found at ... This is the first time that a picture of a burial place on ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S ...

RIVER EDGE, N.J. (1010 WINS) – Lou DiPaolo was only 18 years old when he hit the beach at Iwo Jima as a Marine, but images of the ... all of the 20,000 Japanese soldiers in what was one of ...

The United States defeated the Japanese in the battle for Iwo Jima 70 years ago this ... Inside the tunnels the 22,000 Japanese soldiers were desperate, starving and running out of ammunition.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it: 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.

"This picture ... men landed at Iwo Jima and found a strange environment of volcanic sands and towering cliffs. The Japanese were hidden everywhere in underground caves and tunnels.

Martin Scorsese's movie "The Departed" will probably win best movie but I think Clint Eastwood's anti-war masterpiece "Letters From Iwo Jima" will ... The Japanese soldiers knew they would be ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid ... the U.S. they would overwhelm the Japanese within days, Japanese soldiers used underground tunnels and resisted for five weeks ...

The battle for the Pacific island in the late winter of 1945 positioned the United States to invade mainland Japan, but at a cost Melissa Wiley This General Sherman tank was wrecked by a land mine ...