Hayes and the other surviving flag raisers were mobilized by the U.S. government to enhance national prestige. For getting ...

Nearly all of Japan’s 21,000 soldiers on island killed during the fight, while the US side saw more than 6,800 fatalities.

and in its place a copper flag has been raised. When a treaty is signed this week or next, the U.S. will officially return to the Japanese the Bonin and Volcano Islands, of which Iwo Jima is one ...

was the site where Japanese and American soldiers faced off in one of the war’s fiercest battles. The battle of Iwo Jima lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, as the United States tried to take ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako today made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one ...

Caminiti took the 23-hour flight to Guam and traveled to Iwo Jima and laid one of the three wreaths at the site where U.S. Marines raised the American flag in March 1945. Defense Secretary Pete ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday "praised American-Japanese friendship and trust" while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal World War II ...

IWO-TO, Japan — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute ... the islanders and a third for both Japanese and American war dead. The couple offered a bouquet of ...