A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

US Marines launched a scathing attack on Iwo Jima island during World War II. Capturing the island, about eight kilometres ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima cost nearly 7000 Americans their lives. This weekend, the National Museum of the Pacific War honors ...

A photo exhibit explores the story of Japanese Americans forced into internment camps with reproduced historical photos ...

The Japanese flag once flew at Fukuoka 17, a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan. Avery Cox, then a young man from Southern New Mexico, was among those who lowered the flag and replaced it with an ...

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least ...

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More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...

A Scottish auction house that sold Nazi artefacts has announced it will no longer include Third Reich memorabilia in its ...

You may have seen a submarine returning to port with a Jolly Roger flag waving from its mast. It turns out this is part of a ...

The United States is freeing a Russian cybercrime boss from prison in return for Moscow's release of American schoolteacher ...