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 ...

MORRISON, Colo. (KDVR) — The only thing Thomas Ramm has left from his time on Iwo Jima is a tattered map of the remote Pacific island. That, and a whole lot of sobering memories. As a Navy corpsman, ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged on from Feb. 19, 1945, to March 16, 1945, leaving thousands dead and even more wounded. Yet one photo gave, and continues to give, Americans hope. Look back at the battle ...

On March 3, 1945, Jack Williams, 21, of Harrison was ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan, tending to wounded Marines who were engaged in a fierce battle to dislodge Japanese forces from the island. As a Navy ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the United States Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat brutality and staggering casualties, it was the worst battle in the ...

Former enemies turned allies returned to the volcanic sands of Iwo Jima on Saturday to pay tribute to those who lost their lives during the bloody 36-day fight 78 years ago. Approximately 220 visitors ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Whatever you do, don’t call Don Whipple a former Marine. “Well, I never really actually got out of the Marines. You never get out of it. Once a Marine, always a Marine,” Whipple ...

No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines. But the Omaha lad had a big problem. Even after his 17th birthday — Jan.

In this photo provided by the Iwo Jima Association of America, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth greets veterans including Charles Cram, Hegseth is shaking hands with, a former Marine, who fought ...

Shocky Strand spent last Saturday at the Moorhead Sports Center rooting on his grandson, who plays for the Spuds hockey team. Sixty-two years earlier, Shocky spent late February gathering wounded ...

On Iwo Jima last week at least 40,000 Marines fought to the death with 20,000 entrenched Japanese in an area so constricted that the troops engaged averaged twelve men to an acre. Ashore with the ...

Cavallini was a Marine and served as an infantry platoon commander during the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was injured and ...