Iwo Jima, halfway between Tokyo and the Marianas ... there over Iwo and try to get in there." The weather made landing the plane impossible. Despite gallant efforts, Harry's crew was never ...

In January 1945 Japan's high command anticipated exactly what the U.S. would do -- and began to plan for it ... would assault the islands of Iwo Jima and then Okinawa, where the Japanese hoped ...

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

Whipple, 99, fought in the Pacific during World War II and earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded by a mortar shell upon landing on the island of Iwo Jima. He was named this months FOX31 ...