DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes — then restored one, with changes
In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men ra ...
80 years since one of the bloodiest Pacific battles of World War II
80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...
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‘DEI’ purge prompts Pentagon to remove webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...
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‘My dad didn’t go to war for nothing’: Pentagon scrubs Native American heroes from website
Prominent Native American figures in U.S. military history have been erased from Department of Defense’s website as part of ...
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Father wrote of Iwo Jima’s horrors in letters to family
She recalls running away at 4 years old and wandering Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles with a Life magazine full of pictures of soldiers ... of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the ...
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DOD webpages celebrating legendary minority troops to be restored after being scrubbed from sites
Webpages detailing the history of legendary minority service members will be restored to the Defense Department’s online ...
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
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.
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Japanese descendants of former Iwo Jima residents yearn to live on WWII island
Members of the 120-strong Iwo Jima Return Promotion Council submitted ... the battle was made famous by the picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal of US Marines raising ...