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 ...

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NEW YORK - A long-forgotten World War II statue of the famous flag-raising at Iwo Jima that had been expected to sell for as much as $1.8 million was passed on by bidders in an auction on Friday.

As the 28th Regiment pushed deeper into Iwo Jima, Franklin Sousley, just 19, was fatally wounded in the relentless advance. Though he never saw the lasting impact of his heroism, his role in raising ...

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, ...

Iwo Jima, the first Japanese territory ever conquered by foreign troops, was returned to Japan in 1968. More than 6,000 U.S. service members, mostly Marines, were killed on Iwo Jima. The Japanese lost ...

It’s been more than 60 years since six war heroes hoisted the American flag over Iwo Jima, but Clint Eastwood’s epic film “Flags of Our Fathers” brought images to those too young to recall the bloody ...