but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...

On Iwo Jima the battle ground forward ... They knew that there was no island within fighter-plane range of their homeland which would serve the U.S. purpose as well as Iwo.

It was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, lasting for 36 days ... which is made up of around 30 subtropical ...

Walter LaSota was blown out of a foxhole by a Japanese bomb the first time he was wounded during the World War II Battle of Okinawa ... LaSota returned to the island for the first time in 80 ...

The island was the scene of 5 weeks of brutal combat between Japanese and US forces in World War II. Read more at ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto, better known to the world as Iwo Jima, to ...

Ishiba will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island ... in the battle on Ioto between February and March 1945 in the last phase of the Pacific War, part of World War II.

but the Pacific theater was yet to see its deadliest days. The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa ...