HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Memorial Day celebrations and tributes took place around the United States to honor the men and women who served in our Armed Forces. One local Marine has spent years ...

For Teddy Bucki and other Marines, it was a job just getting onto the beaches to fight the enemy at Iwo Jima. The first challenge occurred with their transfer from the bigger troop ships to the ...

On February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured one of the most enduring images of WWII: six men raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima ...

TOKYO — "To tell the truth, we got more sleep on Iwo Jima than we did while touring the United States later during the War Bond Drive." That's how Rene Gagnon, one of the survivors of the Mount ...

President Trump says the U.S. must own and control Greenland for its future security—and is turning to history to make his ...

A military historian has won the first round in a battle to recover $175,000 from the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, which lost several photographs from an album it borrowed from the collector, ...

In this photo provided by the Iwo Jima Association of America, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth greets veterans including Charles Cram, Hegseth is shaking hands with, a former Marine, who fought ...

A rectangular column topped with a bas-relief depiction of news photographer Joseph Rosenthal's photograph of the Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945.

TOKYO — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in a pivotal World War ...