WWII veteran John Robinson, 102, of Portsmouth helped target Japanese artillery in Battle of Iwo Jima using sound tracking ...

The volcanic ash dragged Franklin Sousley down as he staggered off the landing craft. That February 19, 1945, on the beaches of Iwo Jima, bullets whistled past the steel pot on his head, mortars ...

They needed a safe haven. Iwo Jima, halfway between Tokyo and the Marianas, was ideal. American landing strips on Iwo Jima would not only provide emergency assistance, but could also be a base for ...

Iwo Jima, for one, will take a lot of patient cultivation. After 23 years, it still remains a desolate battlefield, where hulks of landing craft and shell casings jut from the black volcanic sand.

(Iwo Jima is equipped with Harriers.) In addition, these ships have a well deck for launching and retrieving landing craft. Iwo Jima’s Navy crew complement is about 1,200, not including ...

In the 80 years since the bombardment, nature had been busy reclaiming Iwo Jima. If Harter wanted to climb to the top of Mount Suribachi and step on the famed landing beaches, she had just around ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute ... The island is also used for U.S. military aircraft landing exercises.