Clint Eastwood’s $65 million World War 2 box office bomb is given high marks for realism by a former Marine Corps special ops ...

Marines initially invaded Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, as part of the U.S. island-hopping campaign in the Pacific, and it took four days to gain the summit of Suribachi, according to a Department of ...

The new island is an indication that Iwo Jima is volcanically active again. Setsuya Nakada / Asahi Shimbun “Volcanic ash and bombs reached ejected masses as high as 100 meters high above, and ...

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 ...

Returned by the US to Japan in 1968, and eventually renamed Iwo-To (Iō-Tō) in 2007, Iwo Jima (which means “sulfur island” in Japanese) was the site of one of World War II’s most important ...

Bill Sherrill watched from the deck of an attack transport off the coast of Iwo Jima as artillery shells thudded into the small, porkchop-shaped island. For hours, explosions tore across the ...

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

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.