Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...
Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...
Before going to battle, Japanese soldiers were given yosegaki hinomaru—good luck flags—to keep with them on the battlefield. There are currently an estimated 50,000 yosegaki hinomaru throughout ...
"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has praised the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in battle d ...
President Trump has sought to remove mention of any so-called "DEI" veterans from government websites but Johnny Cash ...
The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon ...
Native American veterans Ira Hayes and Lori Piestewa removed from Pentagon website following Trump's DEI ban, despite tribal ...
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could ...
The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that ... had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and ...
Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group ... I understand your concerns – and fully support you raising w/ POTUS. Important considerations, most ...
Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...