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 ...

To honor the five-week Iwo Jima campaign, the Victory Sands models of the Iwo Jima A-11 depict a map of the island with the progress of the Marine Divisions from February into March 1945.

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

RACINE — The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, is one of this nation’s most iconic war memorials. And the next one, pending a successful fundraising campaign ...

Beyond the photograph, Iwo Jima was a brutal and costly battlefield. 60,000 U.S. Marines fought against 21,000 Japanese troops, who had spent months turning the island into a fortress.

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 ...