On Feb. 23, 1945, Marines and Navy corpsmen staked symbolic claim to victory in one phase of WWII battle.

During the final years of World War II, Japan introduced a desperate tactic known as the Kamikaze. Pilots were sent on one-way missions, deliberately crashing their aircraft into enemy ships in an ...

On February 23, 1945, US Marines reached the summit of Mount Suribachi during the brutal Battle of Iwo Jima and raised an American flag to signal progress in one of World War II’s fiercest fights. A ...

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

There are only two confirmed and one alleged incidents of warships being targeted and sunk by submarine-fired torpedoes and ...

President Trump demanded that Iran capitulate in the war with the United States, invoking a phrase made famous by statesmen and generals.

The Trump administration's efforts to change the way history is told and science is described at federal parks, museums, ...

Team USA star Matthew Boyd spoke to Mirror US Sports about being related to two famous Americans, former First Lady Dolley Madison and Hall of Famer Bob Feller ...

At the height of the first Iraq War in 1991, we struck the Amiriya bomb shelter in Baghdad, killing hundreds of civilians. According to the U.S. government, the bunker was being used for military ...

Former Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii), the first Asian American woman elected as president of a legislative body, died Friday following a private battle with cancer, according to multiple reports.

An internal government database demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under segregation with a hero’s memorial, his flag-draped casket under the Capitol’s ...