The Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwo Jima in ...

Iwo Jima can be visited only with military permission and, usually, only by military transport. A comfortless C-130 Hercules propeller craft flies from Okinawa over more than 700 miles of blank ...

The story of the park is a complicated affair and has grown into a situation where it seems to languish without a foreseeable ...

"He was a radio man on a communications ship off the coast of Iwo Jima and Okinawa," DeCarlo said, per WHAM. "He met another radio man, I think he was from the Army, and they were chatting about ...

A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are considering a visit to Iwoto Island in April to pay respects to the victims ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific. The United States needed a base to stage an invasion of mainland Japan. The island of Okinawa was the ...

Sands of Iwo Jima This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima's beaches to the historic flag ...

Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the enemies fought with fierce determination. Surviving soldiers and civilians would describe ...

Charles Sehe, who served on the ship during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, lived in Mankato, Minnesota. His death was ...