The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $255.9 million contract for FY26 maintenance, modernization and repair work on USS ...

Jared Frederick stands at a memorial on top of Mt. Suribachi. He teaches history at Penn State Altoona and is the host of the new documentary “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual World War II Battlefield Tour ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

FAIRHAVEN, Mass., Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Published just in time for the 75th Anniversary of IWO JIMA, this book by Rodney Hilton Brown - with FOREWORD by General Michael W. Hagee, USMC, 33rd ...

Shocky Strand spent last Saturday at the Moorhead Sports Center rooting on his grandson, who plays for the Spuds hockey team. Sixty-two years earlier, Shocky spent late February gathering wounded ...

It would be easy to mistake LHD-7 for an "aircraft carrier," but the conventionally-powered warship is actually a Wasp-class ...

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 an ...

Jared Frederick stands at the base of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Frederick produced “I Hiked Iwo Jima: A Virtual WWII Battlefield Tour,” a documentary on YouTube during a visit to Iwo Jima alongside ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Sunday marks 80 years since U.S. Marines captured Mount Suribachi and hoisted the American flag at Iwo Jima. The move was a symbol of hope and freedom during a tough battle and a long ...

Sunday marks 80 years since six Marines, including a Kentuckian, raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. A photojournalist remember meeting the photographer who captured that iconic image. Kentucky ...

Richard Jessor, CU Boulder distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on ...