IWO JIMA, Japan — Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactuses under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed ...

IWO JIMA, Japan (AP) -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought for more than a month in a rocky 8 square mile area lined with underground tunnels that ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cacti under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the ...

As for Iwo Jima, Nesbella said he didn’t spend much time thinking about over the past 72 years. “After all these years, I don’t think about it,” he said. “It was too much of a horror.

Tsapatsaris, who was wounded on Iwo Jima by shrapnel eight days after landing, near airfield No. 2, was discharged honorably from the service on Nov. 10, 1945.

Iwo Jima – now Ioto – was the first battle fought on Japanese soil. The Americans wanted the island as a fighter base and emergency landing site for B-29 bombers attacking the Japanese mainland.

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Securing Iwo Jima came at a great cost to the Marine Corps and the Navy. More than 75,000 Americans fought at Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 were killed and more than 24,000 wounded.