US team on Iwo Jima looks for remains of flag photographer

A US search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the famous flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later.

They are looking for the remains of Sgt. William Genaust, who was killed in action after filming the flag-raising atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, and other US troops killed in the battle – one of the fiercest and most symbolic of the Second World War.