BILLINGS (LEE)— A salute will be held in Billings today to honor the last member of the Marines’ World War II-era Company E, 2nd Battalion - one of the groups of men who fought on Iwo Jima and ...

Japan's imperial couple commemorated compatriots who died in internment camps after the end of World War II during the first ...

One of the most iconic photographs of WW2 taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945 won a Pulitzer ...

It became a symbol of triumph, but the moment the flag went up at Iwo Jima marked just the beginning of a brutal fight. Many of the men who raised it wouldn’t live to see the end of the war. Their ...

Also known as "The Blue Angel Supper Club,'' an integrated nightclub founded in Manhattan in the early 1940s that hosted such ...

Emperor Naruhito met with Mongolia's president during a visit to the landlocked nation that marks a step toward closer ...

In "Wisconsin Idols," Dean Robbins appreciates 100 artists, thinkers and pioneers who had some impact on the state or himself.

Chinese ships also circled Australia earlier this year, performing live-fire drills which New Zealand's defense minister described as a "wake-up call." Chinese aircraft also continue to cross the ...

Rufus Clay Campbell, a proud Navy veteran, devoted husband, and lifelong farmer of the Wallace Community, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at the age of 99.

Special to Wesson News Twenty-seven Mississippi veterans, including two from the Wesson area, along with their guardians travelled to Washington, D.C., last month on a Honor Flight sponsored by ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...