Japan's royal family wrapped up a two day visit to Okinawa Thursday, where they paid respects to the victims of a World War ...

It was defended by 22,500 Japanese soldiers hidden in an underground network of bunkers stretching from shore to shore. To his last days, Tunnyhill could not forget his first day on Iwo Jima ...

In the cracked concrete of an old bunker on Suribachi ... half,” he said. After Iwo Jima, Scharfe was part of the assault on Okinawa. As his ship neared shore, Japanese kamikaze planes flew ...

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To honor the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the National Museum of the Pacific War is hosting a three-day commemorative event from February 21–23, ...

Iwo Jima was Marine Ed Cavallini's first and ... Woody and his 70 pound flamethrower silenced Japanese concrete bunkers, blockhouses, pillboxes, and the troops inside. He returned to Marine ...

Many historians compare Iwo Jima and especially the Suribachi volcano, intertwined with a large number of bunkers, underground passages and gun emplacements, to Emmental cheese. What can be said about ...

TOKYO -- Traces of fierce battles in the Pacific War remain on Iwo Jima (now Ioto Island ... erected on top of the Tenzan-go bunker, which was a Japanese military hub, Mount Suribachi, the ...

Located about 750 miles southeast of Japan, Iwo Jima had three airstrips that were ... “They were in tunnels and caves and bunkers and foxholes and everything else. That volcanic ash that ...

He was the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the Second World War and was widely regarded as a hero for his actions in Japan ... suffered in taking Iwo Jima, the strategic importance ...