The battle for Mount Suribachi was one of the most grueling fights of WWII. This video captures the courage, strategy, and sacrifice it took to raise the flag on Iwo Jima.

Frank S. Wright, who served in the 4th Raider Battalion in the Pacific during World War II and fought at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, wants to get 100,000 birthday cards for his 100th birthday on July 5.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The Bailey Pointe Assisted Living Facility is adorned with U.S. flags up and down its sidewalks for the Fourth of July. On ...

The propeller that helped thrust the USS Shangri-La aircraft carrier and figures into a pivotal scene from the Apollo 13 ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito met with Mongolia’s president Tuesday during a visit to the landlocked Asian nation that marks a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There were funnel cakes, stands of festival bling and American flags aplenty. There were mighty machines of war, brought out to dazzle and impress. And there was the spray of tear ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

Pasadena’s new approach to light up the sky was one of scores of Independence Day celebrations across L.A. County ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to ...