IWO JIMA, Japan (AP) -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the ...

IWO JIMA, Japan - Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the iconic ...

SCOTTSBORO - Jimmie Tanner of Scottsboro said he thought he'd never see his wife and children again when he and thousands of other Marines landed at Iwo Jima in February 1945. Tanner, 86, a two-time ...

For Stamford’s Charlie Guinta, having participated in the fiercely fought World War II Battle of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific, wasn’t enough; 77 years later he had to visit the site of an even bigger ...

DEAR MR. WEEKS: — Our ampty transport vessel with its deck-load of beaten-up landing craft is rolling heavily on the long voyage home from Iwo Jima. To provide quarters for casualties, the sick bay ...

With a small budget compared with "Flags of Our Fathers," the companion film "Letters From Iwo Jima" managed to give the illusion of being shot abroad when it was in actuality a Southern California ...

Clint Eastwood arrived at the Berlinale riding the crest of acclaim for "Letters From Iwo Jima," with best picture honors from several U.S. critics group and four Oscar nominations, including two for ...