Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...

The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon ...

The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII. 80 years ago, the battle of Iwo Jima came to an end on 26 March 1945. After 36 days of fighting, nearly 7,000 US Marines had been killed and another 20,000 ...

Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. In short ... "Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945." National Archives ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Hayes was one of the Marines famously photographed raising the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II. Some items about Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, a Hopi soldier who was the first Native American woman to ...

The memorial service was first held in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and has been held ... and a monument depicting U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount ...

Dorothy Duval Nelson, left, and her son Lee Nelson look at the neatly arranged military-issued items in the trunk Claude ...

It also pulled the historic photos of six Marines hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 because it was on a page celebrating Army Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian. A biography of World War II ...

He traveled to five countries in Europe to witness the recovery and reburial of Germans who died in World War II. When Daniel and ... They could imagine raising chickens there, planting tomatoes ...