Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war ...

A piece of a World War II aircraft carrier residing for decades in Bergen County will soon be moved to the Battleship New Jersey.

‘Uncommon valor was a common virtue on Iwo Jima," Adm. Chester Nimitz once said. About 100,000 Marines —many of them collegiate All-Americans — landed on the tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific ...

Wrestlers, veterans and neighbors hiked Palo Duro Canyon to honor Iwo Jima Marines and teach the next generation about ...

Military officials, diplomats and analysts say a main purpose of the force is to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela’s president ...

In the spring of 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima unfolded as one of the Pacific War’s most brutal clashes, pitting U.S. Marines ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, have paid their respects to atomic bombing victims in Nagasaki as he wrapped up a tour on the 80th anniversary.

Leighton Willhite was a 19-year-old Marine corporal when he landed on Iwo Jima in 1945 as part of the battle’s opening ...

During the battle to take the island from the Japanese, more than 70,000 Marines and attached Army and Navy personnel set foot on Iwo Jima. That included combat soldiers, but also medical corpsmen, ...

The USS Iwo Jima is the flagship of an Amphibious Ready Group, a quick-response team for contingency missions. Marte's mother, initially shocked by his enlistment, became his biggest supporter. Jarek ...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of excerpts from the diary of Anthony Sirco, a gunner on the USS Arkansas during World War II. The first article appeared in the June 2, 2024, issue of ...