The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago. Troops ...

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

When World War II Marine Corps hero Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who was based at Camp Pendleton, received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military award in 1942, he was said to have ...

The recently identified remains of a Marine hailed for his bravery in battle are heading home 72 years after he was killed on a remote Pacific atoll during World War II. First Lt. Alexander "Sandy" ...

Frank S. Wright turns 100 on July 5, 2025. He’d like to get 100,000 birthday cards for the occasion. Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined ...

Anderson Giles, a retired University of Maine at Presque Isle art professor who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to ...

LEBANON, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nearly 80 years after being killed in WWII, a Marine’s remains were returned home to Lebanon, Tennessee Wednesday. “He gave his life for our country,” said Lane Martin, Captain ...

When 20-year-old Charmning Willie Rowe joined the military to fight alongside his brother in World War II, it wasn’t because he was drafted but because he wouldn’t take no as an answer. Time after ...