Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese machine-gun nest on a map so as to forward ... out a cave on a hill on Iwo Jima. Confined to an island then less than eight ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

"We didn't know a thing about combat but we had the sense that nothing could survive on that island," Jessor said. Feb. 19, 1945, they landed on Iwo Jima. As they reached the shore, the Japanese ...

Roughly 70,000 U.S. soldiers fought to take Iwo Jima. More than 6,500 were killed. Of the 20,000 or so Japanese defending the island, about 19,000 were killed in combat.