Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese machine-gun nest on a map so as ... of caged combat. Iwo Jima means “sulfur island” in Japanese, and Japan’s imperial ...

His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...

“Capturing Iwo Jima had immediate consequences for the approach to Japan,” Jessor says. “What was happening was that our bombers were leaving from Saipan or Tinian, and some of those bombers would get ...