The Rock Falls American Legion held its annual Honor Flight picnic on Aug. 30. Two special guests were in attendance, Eva Hoff and George Olson of Beloit, to bring attention to Vets Roll, a program ...

(2000) is a book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about his father, Navy corpsman John Bradley, and five United States Marines, who were made famous by Joe Rosenthal’s Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ...

The black flag—history’s stark symbol of no quarter—is rising again on the battlefields of the 21st century. It is not raised openly, as in the age of pirates or medieval siege warfare. Instead, it ...

At 101, Thomas H. Begay, one of the last two living Navajo Code Talkers, sat in a Flagstaff hotel lobby on the evening of Aug. 14, National Navajo Code Talkers Day, still wearing the scarlet-and-gold ...

Frank Wright recalls a deadly face-to-face battle on Iwo Jima, offering a firsthand account of combat, survival, and service in World War II. Brad Pitt opens up about decision to end sobriety Tattoos ...

The ceremonies honored the men who used a Native language the U.S. government once sought to repress to help win World War II.

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, and 24 other traditional rulers in his Federal Constituency in Osun State have commended President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, ...

NEWINGTON/NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WFSB) - The eternal flame at the National Iwo Jima Memorial has gone out for the first time in 31 years after Friday’s storm brought down trees and power lines, damaging ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — For the first time since 1995, the National Iwo Jima Memorial’s eternal flame is out in the Newington and New Britain area following Friday’s storm, according to the ...