To honor the five-week Iwo Jima campaign, the Victory Sands models of the Iwo Jima A-11 depict a map of the island with the progress of the Marine Divisions from February into March 1945.

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

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 ...

"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 ...