Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Department of Defense has launched a new effort to identify the remains of service members ...

Harriet Petersen, of Cranston, wrote, "It was the only entertainment he had during his nine months of active service and now ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

William Feldman says peace is found in simple rituals, like a good cigar, a glass of scotch and the wisdom of a well-lived ...

although still short of war, in the western Pacific. That’s not actually that dissimilar from the way that World War II started. We remember World War II as a global war because that’s what it ...

He plans to attend a joint Japan-U.S. memorial service on March 29, which would make him the first Japanese prime minister ...

Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and freon grenades.

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

The Department of Defense and U.S. Army scrubbed articles on the Navajo Code Talkers and their contribution to America's ...

LOVELOCK — Navy veteran and longtime Lovelock resident Mercedes Marcucci Starr has witnessed many events during her lifetime.