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 ...

IWO JIMA, Japan - Maj. Sean Stinchon stands at the base of Hill 362A and scans a map drawn up by Navy Seabees in 1948 that is deeply creased and covered in reddish brown dirt. The map shows a ...

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 ...