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.

The Long March began just after midnight on Jan. 28, 1945, when Stalag Luft III, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in what is now ...

Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of society has an integration story, including the military. The Fighting ...