The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

Classics like The Best Years of Our Lives and modern gems like Dunkirk are among the best movies made about World War II over ...

During World War II, the Battle of Iwo Jima exposed a brutal problem for U.S. Marines: Japanese bunkers, tunnels, and interlocking fire turned the black sand beaches into a killing zone, and standard ...

It would be easy to mistake LHD-7 for an "aircraft carrier," but the conventionally-powered warship is actually a Wasp-class ...

Trump posted on Truth Social a photo of the Venezuelan leader wearing in a gray sweatsuit, protective headphones and ...

During World War II, American shotguns entered the Pacific War with a fearsome reputation for jungle combat. They were ...

The US used the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima – one of the Navy's most important multi-purpose warships – in the ...

Maduro was detained in Caracas along with his wife and flown by helicopter to the USS Iwo Jima before being transferred to ...

Cavallini was a Marine and served as an infantry platoon commander during the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was injured and received the Purple Heart at the age of 21.

On March 3, 1945, James Huston Jr., a 21-year-old pilot from Pennsylvania, took off from the Navy escort carrier Natoma Bay on a mission to strike transport vessels and was shot down by the Japanese ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a copy of Harold Raskin's typewritten diary "Blind Landing on Iwo Jima," kept during his time as part of the Army ...

‘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 ...