Iwo Jima (which translates as Sulfur Island) is a tiny, ugly island of volcanic ash, smoke, and tremors. Marine Corporal E. Hartman said the sand was “so soft it was like trying to run in loose ...

Iwo Jima is almost on the Tropic of Cancer, parboiled by the North Equatorial Current. In the sun its rocks become charcoal-colored briquettes in a hibachi. The temperature was 100¡ in the ...

In Japanese, that name looks and means the same as Iwo Jima -- Sulfur Island -- but it has a different sound. The civilians were evacuated in 1944 as U.S. forces advanced across the Pacific.

Iwo Jima can be visited only with military permission and, usually, only by military transport. A comfortless C-130 Hercules propeller craft flies from Okinawa over more than 700 miles of blank ...

Returned by the US to Japan in 1968, and eventually renamed Iwo-To (Iō-Tō) in 2007, Iwo Jima (which means “sulfur island” in Japanese) was the site of one of World War II’s most important ...

In Japanese, that name looks and means the same as Iwo Jima -- Sulfur Island -- but it has a different sound. The civilians were evacuated in 1944 as U.S. forces advanced across the Pacific.

The discovery indicates that Iwo Jima, which translates to “sulfur island,” has resumed volcanic activity. It was last notably active in 1982, according to Oregon State University.

The new name in Japanese looks and means the same as Iwo Jima — or Sulfur Island — but sounds different, the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute said.

The Seabees on Iwo Jima focuses on the United States Naval Construction Battalions in World War II, ... Iwo Jima, or Sulfur Island in Japanese would become one of World War II's most horrific battles.

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...