The most famous amphibious landing in history is almost certainly D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944—but it ...

In 1945, a dozen U.S. Navy nurses evacuated 2,393 men from Iwo Jima on 125 flights — more than 13% of everyone evacuated from ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima monument in Quantico, Virginia, has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after a man ...

A sledgehammer attack on an Iwo Jima statue near Marine Corps Base Quantico left one Marine statue decapitated, causing ...

Like Cillian Murphy and Jessie Buckley before him, Andrew Scott has emerged as early hot favourite to land a Best Actor Oscar ...

If you’ve been meaning to get a passport but haven’t yet, you may want to hold out just a bit longer (unless you need one to travel, of course). Late last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

Mission 13 of the Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight is complete. “There certainly was a lot of personality in this group,” Honor Flight President and CEO Martin Leamy ...

Close to 72,000 Americans who died in WWII have not had their bodies recovered. New technology is helping find them in some of the most overlooked battles.

CAMP COURTNEY, OKINAWA, Japan – Eighty-one years after the battle of Iwo Jima, a group of Marines from 3rd Marine Division disembarked a C-130 plane on the airfield of Iwo Jima, ready to explore the ...

Soldiers in the lead-up to the Normandy invasion during World War II in Saving Private Ryan (1998) Image via DreamWorks Pictures When it comes to writing a story, one of the hardest aspects to nail is ...

This installment of ‘When Character Counted’ takes us to a small Pacific island where thousands of American Marines courageously sacrificed their lives. On Feb. 23, 1945, Secretary of the Navy James ...

The Marine Corps War Memorial depicts one of the most iconic images from World War II: U.S. troops raising an American flag following the Battle of Iwo Jima. It’s a symbol of American perseverance, ...