The Marines, however, modified LVTs with ramps that allowed their men to penetrate the atoll on the northwest. Moreover, the ...

On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines launched Operation Detachment, the massive assault on Iwo Jima, beginning one of the ...

Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

Stars and Stripes’ history goes back well before the Pacific arena. The first issue can be traced to Nov. 1, 1861, in ...

Hubbell High School will host an Edmund Fitzgerald commemorative event at 6 p.m. Dec. 3, in the high school auditorium. The ...

Bill Knapp, one of the architects of modern downtown Des Moines, will be interred at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, another landmark he helped create.

"The character that drove (Bill Knapp's) long career was forged in the fires of war on a Pacific island 80 years ago." ...

Bill Knapp was honored with a military ceremony on Friday at a pavilion on the grounds of the cemetery he donated a bulk of the land to create.

Ivan W. Atkins Jr., who survived the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while serving aboard the battleship USS West ...

The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls ...

Big dogs play badass roles every day as guard dogs, herding dogs, service dogs, and countless other vital jobs that canines ...

Families and veterans watched as names were read aloud and added to the tribute wall during the Nov. 11 ceremony.