Iwo Jima and the other Volcano Islands were administered by the United States from 1945 until they were returned to Japan in 1968. Injured U.S. Marines being treated at an aid station on Iwo Jima, 1945.

Does the US still control Iwo Jima?

After the war, the United States retained possession of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (where another 20,000 Americans died) along with a number of other islands in the Central Pacific. ... But while Russia continues to hold on to its former Japanese territory, the United States has returned almost all of its.

Is Iwo Jima occupied?

Nearly five decades after Japan's surrender, Iwo Jima continues to be inhabited by the Japanese and American military. Only now they are working together.