U.S. Marines and sailors landed on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, ultimately capturing it in one of World War II's most significant battles. The fierce fighting resulted in 27 ...

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Huntley will not have a Memorial Day parade this year after officials with the American Legion questioned whether the event ...

Clint Eastwood may be best known for his iconic Westerns, but the Hollywood star who turns 95 this year also starred in a couple of epic World War 2 films. Before directing Second World War companion ...

Later Worth became an officer and commanded a team of military dog handlers in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was an eyewitness to the iconic flag-raising ... faithfully in the American Legion and ...

The Trace examines a fraternal group that says it's on a mission to help children—but dozens of its local chapters host of ...

10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) ...

They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after.

1949 – 75 years ago A bronze and granite memorial of five marines and one navy corpsman who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945, has been commissioned and will be placed on ...

Whipple, 99, fought in the Pacific during World War II and earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded by a mortar shell upon landing on the island of Iwo Jima ... as American flags were famously ...