"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what ...

World War II was one of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It was the largest war ever fought, with more ...

Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of Wahoo and her intrepid crew.

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 ...

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

A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is shining a light on a lesser-known chapter of American history: the ...

The granddaughter of a World War II pilot expressed her shock that photos of the "Enola Gay" -- the plane used to drop an ...

Local centenarian Joseph Sciarra, who fought in World War II, is living his life to the fullest! At 100 years young, he has ...

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 to deport people the administration claimed to belong to Venezuelan gang Tren ...

If Yoko Ono’s life were a novel, it would be a twisting, turning, wildly unpredictable epic. What a story: Little Yoko was ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on ...

Lewis enlisted in 1945 at the age of 17. He was at Iwo Jima, where his unit cleared caves of remaining Japanese soldiers.