WWII veteran John Robinson, 102, of Portsmouth helped target Japanese artillery in Battle of Iwo Jima using sound tracking ...

September 12, 1964 - The Italian release of “A Fistful of Dollars,” the first of three “spaghetti westerns” Eastwood would star in for director Sergio Leone. The film is released in the United States ...

President Donald Trump has announced two national holidays for Americans to commemorate U.S. victories in the First and ...

"I love life, I love people, I love to be with people, I love to entertain," said Don Graves, one of three known living ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest ...

It was an image that instantly became an American historical icon. But the haze of war and human memory shrouded the ...

Urbana's VFW Post #630 becomes home to history honoring Marine Cpl. Richard L. “Dick” Pittman, who lost his life on Iwo Jima, ...

On top of Mount Suribachi, where the flag raising immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph took place in 1945, Connor and his fellow Marines shook hands with Japanese veterans of the ...

She says the part that stuck with her the most was climbing Mount Suribachi. "That is the most physically challenged I have ever been," she said. "And you think how these men stormed this island ...