Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 12:38 PM EST The Battle of ...

TOKYO (AP) — An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. The unnamed undersea ...

Seventy-five years after Kunizo Iwai fell in the Battle of Iwo Jima, his son, Kentaro, wants to finally bring his father home. Kunizo Iwai is one of the more than 10,000 Imperial Japanese Army ...

The island of Iwo Jima, where one of the bloodiest battles took place, has risen above sea level as a result of submarine eruptions that have been recorded over the past few weeks, bringing up ...

There is a chance of perhaps 1 in 3 that there will such an eruption this century. ” There are parts of the world where monitoring of volcanoes is very poor, and many of these poorly watched volcanoes ...

A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United States Marines designed and built the “Stinger” light machine gun (LMG) during the lead-up to the invasion of Iwo Jima in 1945.

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

Instead of Vietnam, Floyd received orders to help operate the Loran system on a remote Pacific Island called Iwo Jima. In March 1945, the guns fell silent and blood stopped flowing on Iwo Jima ...

SAN ANTONIO — Nearly eight decades after U.S. Marines raised the flag at Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, five of them reunited at San Antonio's Menger Hotel to reconnect ...

The 328-foot-wide island emerged in the Ogasawara Island chain, about half a mile from Iwoto (formerly known as Iwo Jima). Volcano eruptions in the archipelago are not rare, but this one released ...

If you do the math, that means he was just a teenager when he witnessed — and took part in — a truly historic moment nearly 80 years ago on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima during World War II.