From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

Ongoing construction delays at a Japanese air base meant to host U.S. Navy carrier landing practice have stalled parts of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 60 miles of underground tunnels and dozens of bunkers, artillery positions ... suffered the most horrific toll. Unlike Iwo Jima, the Japanese did not completely evacuate the civilian ...