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 ...

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 ...

Working from the sand tables, military planners wrongly estimated that 13,000 Japanese soldiers ... was to dig tunnels. So when they say, you know, the Japanese were in Iwo Jima, they really ...

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 36-day battle for control of the tiny island of Iwo Jima, located around 1,200 kms off the coast of Japan, started on February 19, 1945, and saw the death of 18,500 Japanese soldiers and ...

Iwo Jima is Japanese for “sulfur island,” and the Japanese Imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other ... Roughly 70,000 U.S. soldiers fought to take Iwo Jima.

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 ...