Called “the Unkillable Soldier,” he fought in three major conflicts and refused to stay sidelined for long despite losing an eye and hand in battle, surviving multiple plane crashes and being ...

Colorado WWII Navy veteran remembers heroes he helped on Iwo Jima 80 years ago She moved to the Colorado mountains a few years ago where she works as Eagle County Veterans Service Officer ...

A month of intensive fighting on Iwo Jima from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, resulted in the successful capture of the island in the Ogasawara Archipelago and proved to be crucial for the U.S. military ...

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Hayes was an enrolled member of the tribe and one of six Marines featured in an iconic 1945 Associated Press photograph of U.S. forces raising an American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

FALL RIVER – The City of Fall River Veterans’ Service Office invites the community to join in a solemn Day of Recognition for the End of the Battle of Iwo Jima on Friday, March 28.

In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields ...

(AP) — A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day. That ...

"Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others -- we salute them for their strong ...