In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages ...

But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest Generation,” then the troops who fought at Iwo Jima certainly have to be ...

Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six ...

A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

FEB. 19, 1945 -- UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, (Monday) -- (AP) -- Iwo Jima's coastal defense were further shattered Sunday in the third straight day of bombardment of the ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

In Photos U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945.Credit...Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press Supported by By ...

With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time ...

As U.S. Navy fleet admiral Chester Nimitz said of those ... to Wake Island to Guadalcanal—it was Iwo Jima that truly immortalized the Marines in the American public eye. This past Wednesday ...