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

In June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The assault was led by the Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks of the 9th Tank Regiment ...

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

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On her long trip to the scrapyard, the venerable aircraft carrier will sail around South America and participate in naval exercises.

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.

At the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi, staff members asked the Trump administration to ...

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 ...