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

Following a 23-year U.S. occupation, Iwo Jima was returned to Japan in 1968 as part of the Ogasawara island group, but is now home to only 380 service members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate ...

Dignitaries from the federal government, military officials, and families of those killed in the World War II battle of Iwo Jima traveled to Japan to mark 80 years since the U.S. wrestled control o… ...

The film's framing device is a modern-day excavation by Japanese archaeologists probing the now-deserted fortifications of Iwo, in which a sack of mail, undelivered, is uncovered.

Sailors assigned to USS Iwo Jima and USO staff talk at the grand opening of the first USO afloat recharge center on an amphibious assault ship, July 28, 2025 in Norfolk, Va. (Erickson Magno/U.S. Navy) ...

BATH. A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN IN PORTSMOUTH IS CELEBRATING HIS 102ND BIRTHDAY. JOHN B ROBINSON SPOKE AT THE PORTSMOUTH SENIOR CENTER TODAY, TALKING ABOUT HIS TIME IN IWO JIMA. HE WAS A U.S. MARINE ...