IWO JIMA, Japan (AP) -- Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the ...

TOKYO (AP) – An American search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the iconic flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have ...

SCOTTSBORO - Jimmie Tanner of Scottsboro said he thought he'd never see his wife and children again when he and thousands of other Marines landed at Iwo Jima in February 1945. Tanner, 86, a two-time ...

ROCK ISLAND - It was Feb. 23, 1945, and Marine Corps Pfc. John Elliott, of Rock Island, had already tasted death enough to know he didn't want any more. Hunkered in a foxhole, he already had survived ...

Tsuruji Akikusa, 81,a Japanese WWII veteran and survivor of the battle of Iwo Jima, exits a cave on Sept. 10, 2008, where he says he lived for three months until his capture by U.S. forces on the ...

Wilford "Bud" Garves of rural Sparta, Wis., can still picture the dead Marine, looking like he was crouching down. Dr. Paul Dunn of rural Ferryville, Wis., remembers seeing lots of Marines arriving at ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate, deadly ...