Two people from South Carolina were there for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings and survived. Their stories are featured in ...

The only thing Thomas Ramm has left from his time on Iwo Jima is a tattered map of the remote Pacific island. That, and a ...

The small island of Iwo Jima, a volcanic speck in the Pacific ... Stripped of almost all of its sparse vegetation by the U.S. bombardment, the island resembled a lunar landscape, covered with ...

In one case, in 2010, an assassin attached a sticky bomb to a car door. In others ... was its worse single-day loss since the ...

A home linked to Sgt. Ernest "Boots" Thomas, who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, may be demolished to improve security for Gov.

The New Jersey native commanded the 6th Marine War Dog Platoon, which participated in the battle for Iwo Jima in February and March 1945. He lived in Omaha with his daughter and son-in-law ...

On the anniversary of Gee’s death, the USS Iwo Jima, a Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, dedicated its gym to the fallen Marine. “She served aboard the USS Iwo Jima, and she was an avid ...

Bell witnessed the invasions of Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu and Iwo Jima from the ship's deck ... 1945 Bell's ship took part in the pre-invasion bombardment of Okinawa, and was hit by a kamikaze ...

The torpedo struck the bomb magazine, causing an intense explosion ... During the invasion of Iwo Jima, she provided critical ...

Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa ... number of human lives affected by the two bomb blasts. — The American Experience ...

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The American flag can and should be a symbol of hope to people for a future of liberty and justice, for America and people in ...