At 81, Japanese vet makes rare return to Iwo Jima

AP Photo/David Guttenfelder

Tsuruji Akikusa, an 81-year-old Japanese WWII veteran and survivor of the battle of Iwo Jima, prays for his dead comrades at the entrance to a cave where he says he lived for three months until his capture.

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