Iwo Jima survivors recall 1945 battle WASHINGTON -- It was 70 years ago Thursday, during the Second World War, that U.S. forces began a bloody but successful battle to capture the Japanese island ...

Today the only inhabitants are about 400 Japanese soldiers. The 1945 battle for Iwo Jima pitted some 100,000 U.S. troops against 22,000 Japanese deeply dug into a labyrinth of tunnels and trenches.

Two nearly 100-year-old veterans of the Battle of of Iwo Jima in Japan met for the first time on its 75th anniversary at a ceremony aboard another of the battle’s veterans — the Battleship New ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima lasted five weeks, with the United States capturing the island at its conclusion. About 70,000 Marines fought in the battle, compared to 21,000 Japanese forces.

Aging veterans return to Iwo Jima -- perhaps for the last time -- to commemorate the 65th anniversary of one of the costliest American victories of World War II.

Letters from Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood, screenplay by Iris Yamashita Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima is, in many ways, an unusual and remarkable work. The director, after ...

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.

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 vet James Scotella recounts raising of American flag It was the morning of Feb. 19, 1945 and 19-year-old Corporal James Scotella had his orders: to invade the island of Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima is almost as iconic, if not even more so, than Tun Tavern representing the legacy of the Marine Corps. Fighters. There was no way around it, there was only through it.

Iwo Jima is a tiny, 8-square mile island, about one-tenth the size of Catalina Island. Iwo Jima means “sulfer island” in Japanese and is 660 miles south of Tokyo.