The US Department of Defense announced on Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel next week to Hawaii, Guam, ...

MANILA: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to Asia next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against ...

Defense Department recognitions of Jackie Robinson, the Joint Chiefs chairman, and legendary combat units were altered in a ...

The community will gather at Fall River's Bicentennial Park for a Day of Recognition for the End of the Battle of Iwo Jima ...

MILLINGTON, Tennessee – A Kerrville native is serving aboard USS Iwo Jima, a U.S. Navy Wasp class amphibious assault ship.

A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.

The 4th Division’s combat casualties rose to 8,094. On March 11, the 20th day after the landing, the 4th Division reached the ocean and overcame enemy resistance. On the division’s right flank, the ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...