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.

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Many who join the U.S. Navy often cite their desire to sail around the world as motivation. For James "Jim" Gardner, who ...

Congressman John Joyce welcomed 97 year old World War II veteran Walter Marasco and his family to his office in Altoona to ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima cost nearly 7000 Americans their lives. This weekend, the National Museum of the Pacific War honors ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s forensic lab in Hawaii has begun analyzing dozens of human remains retrieved from Laos and the Philippines in recent weeks in hopes of identifying U.S. service ...

The elimination of USAID will weaken American soft power, jeopardise global health programs, and benefit rival nations such as China.

The bloody battle fought on the Pacific island between February and March of 1945 claimed some 21,900 lives on the Japanese ...

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

The Philippine Mars' final flight ended in Lake Pleasant, Arizona, where the aircraft will be displayed. See photos of the ...

Eighty-three years after the bombing of Darwin — the largest attack carried out by a foreign power on Australian soil — experts say the event marked a turning point in Australia's alliance with the ...

The Bombing of Darwin, coupled with the Fall of Singapore just days before, marked the “lowest point” of the Pacific War for ...