The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon ...
In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...
Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...
Before he passed, former Texas Tech Professor Bill Pasewark recalled seeing "things that stay with you forever" on Iwo Jima during World War II.
Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...
One of 27 Marines awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II, Justice left a four-generation legacy of service that is still going strong. Now a Marine ...
Prominent Native American figures in U.S. military history have been erased from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website as ...
A commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of Iwo Jima has been overshadowed by the removal of the battle’s most iconic ...
"I do hope she has lost her desire to run away from home," her father wrote two days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima ... flag that flew over Mount Suribachi, as seen in ...
80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...
"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...