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

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

The U.S. Capitol, pictured before the Iwo Jima Memorial Park in Arlington, on Dec. 7. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post) Kudos to Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for pointing out in their ...

The Department of Defense has removed the page from its website that celebrated the Pima Indian officer who appeared in the ...

WAKEENEY, Kan. (KSNW) — The Iwo Jima Memorial in WaKeeney is moving and will have a new home. The City of WaKeeney’s travel and tourism director, Lynelle Shubert, said the memorial was ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up ...

At 100 years old, he still clearly remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines first landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt days later seeing Old Glory raised high. On his desk in ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- 99-year-old WWII veteran William "Buck" Myers lives to tell the tale of the Battle of Iwo Jima on its 80th anniversary. "We were undergoing fire at the time ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful ... car for each country — and we would sometimes pass the Marine Corps War Memorial, Rosenthal’s photo cast as a bronze statue. My father would go quiet.

also known as Iwo Jima, a fierce battleground in the Pacific War, on March 29, government officials said Wednesday. He plans to attend a joint Japan-U.S. memorial service to remember the victims ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... a 1993 speech at the Marine Corps War Memorial, Marine Corps Commandant Gen.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will attend a memorial service in late March on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and Gen Nakatani, the Japanese ...