The Battle of Iwo Jima began with an amphibious assault by Marines on Feb. 19, 1945, following months of aerial and naval bombardment. The Japanese had dug a defensive labyrinth of tunnels into ...

Today is the 70th anniversary of the start of the battle of Iwo Jima. On this day, in 1945, U.S. Marines landed on the beaches after months of naval and air bombardment. But what the Marines found ...

For 72 consecutive days, sea and air elements of one of the mightiest U.S. naval task forces in history bombarded Iwo Jima.

Viewer Charles E Voigtsberger shared this information about the translation of some of the Japanese characters on the hand-drawn battle map featured in the Iwo Jima Map story. My wife reads ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the most important clashes of WWII, seeing the famous flag raising of the U.S. Marine Corps. It also inspired the Clint Eastwood films "Letters from Iwo Jima" and ...

Photos of Marty Connor, along with one of his original 5th Marine Division patches, are propped in the black sand along one of Iwo Jima's landing beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background ...

Given those deficiencies, Adm. Ernest King, the chief of naval operations, dismissed the occupation of Iwo Jima as a waste of resources.

Seahawk conducts vertical replenishment on USS Iwo Jima during integrated naval combat readiness training.