World War II U.S. Navy Veteran, Joseph McCarron, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by friends and loved ones earlier ...

Arthur's biography on the U.S. DOD website, published in 2021, described her enlistment in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve ...

As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a "digital content refresh," many references on the Pentagon's website that honored Native Americans who used their ...

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 Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

A World War II veteran in Wisconsin turns 100 years old. Both the VA and his senior living facility honored his service, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the ...

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.

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

"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, ...