Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

There have been so many World War II movies made over the years, but only a few perfect ones, including classics like The ...

They are part of the Greatest Generation and survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. As their numbers diminish with each passing year, eight veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima ...

War remains an endemic human tragedy, and movies have long been one of the best ways to demonstrate its horrors to those who have never experienced it. With great power tensions rising in the real ...

The U.S. military has reported two major incidents that occurred in recent days tied to the massive buildup of forces in the ...

A field watch with real Pacific-theater lineage and A-11 DNA, the Praesidus Pacific Front line of timepieces are built to be ...

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary of independence, Brightline has rolled out a Freedom Express train to celebrate ...

The longtime Aurora resident who died Jan. 25 just a few months shy of his 100th birthday had lived many lifetimes in that near century on Earth.

In the Pacific War, thousands of American Marines were dying before they ever reached the beach. This video tells the story of the LVT, an ungainly amphibious vehicle that quietly transformed island ...

The helicopters do not fly. They crawl. Like prehistoric insects trapped in amber, they hang suspended against the orange glare of a Vietnam sunrise, rotors chopping the thick air. The sound arrives ...