The Battle of Okinawa lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Two-time Purple Heart recipient LaSota returned to the island for ...

John McClelland “Jack” Elliott, a historian and Marine aviation veteran who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam ... Museum of the Marine Corps. Elliott’s military achievements and ...

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

A retired Chemical Corps major defended freedom on the Korean Peninsula and served in the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm ...

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage reporting the history of "Golden Girls" actor Bea Arthur enlisting in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II.

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. Here, Harris is surrounded by family ...

March 27 (UPI) --Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl ... Jr., one of last 2 remaining Tuskegee World War II veterans, dies at 100 Japanese atomic bomb ...

The tiny island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean lies around 1,250 kilometres (780 miles) from Tokyo and was the scene of ...

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...