The first shots of the Cold War were fired in Korea. Americans heard the term “domino theory” for the first time. If Korea ...

Beneath cotton-white clouds, shouts of delight rang out as Carl Berghofer rode his all-terrain vehicle down the hill of his ...

Among the most brutal battles of World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of Iwo Jima began on February 19, 1945 and raged for 36 days, devastating the island stronghold. W. Eugene Smith ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The whine of an incoming mortar shell filled the air as Ken Brown tried to catch a few winks of sleep — as impossible as that may have seemed while battle raged on Iwo Jima. Brown had trained ...

Designated ‘Operation Detachment’, the American invasion of Iwo Jima had the ... Towards the end of the battle, a battalion of Marines raised the United States flag atop Mount Suribachi, a volcano ...

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.

Suribachi and the flags (plural) raised there by U.S. Marines are the best known history of Iwo Jima, but we should remember that the five-week battle was one of the bloodiest in Marine Corps history.

Editor's note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo ... more about the island's terrain, as no American had ever set foot on Iwo Jima, enemy fire kept ...