The battle inspired movies and books but is perhaps best associated with one of the most famous photos of World War II—showing a group of US Marines raising the American flag on the rubble-covered ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island, around ...

Before World War II, they were so popular that the Japanese ... “Putting on a baseball uniform was like putting on the American flag,” says Nakagawa. And while Japanese American baseball ...

ALTON - As a World War II Prisoner of War, Alton native Robert Ryan traded his Marquette Catholic High School class ring for ...

Holt Breen stresses that the highest honor in Native American culture is to be a warrior. United by a tradition of service, ...

The event is stirring memories of an exhibition in 1970, when the postwar Japanese economy was taking off and “you could have dreams about the future.” ...

Navy battle flags have a long tradition of honoring American history and culture ... 1944 and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Traditional warfare is as old as civilization itself. Going back millennia, societies have trained warriors for battle and ...

The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University ...

U.S. forces liberated Nazi concentration camps 80 years ago this month. Among the liberators were Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American soldiers whose actions today are often forgotten.

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

Meriden Veterans Honor Guard was honored for its military burials and all of the work it does honoring veterans and their ...