Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

It had rained all day on March 4. Lee's ship was anchored about 300 yards off Iwo Jima, the day Marines had secured one of the three airstrips for the first B-29 bomber to make an emergency landing.

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert ... Bergen was working at a San Diego aircraft factory building B-29 Superfortress bombers when he was “kidnapped ...

Cram, who landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, spent the first night in a foxhole by himself feeling “terribly scared.” A few days later, Cram was shot in his leg by a Japanese sniper while ...