The purge, which also targeted multiple webpages about women and LGBTQ+ service members, highlights how aggressively military ...

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 ...

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...

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 ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

Prominent Native American figures in U.S. military history have been erased from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website as ...

The pages featured Navajo Code Talkers and the Marine from Arizona who helped plant the flag at Iwo Jima. Trump's DEI ban led ...

Rating: In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men raising a flag ...