U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo ...

The overall narrative portrayed begins with African Americans’ involvement in wartime before World War I through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

The novelist who brought three of the “greatest heroines” of World War II to life in back-to-back gripping stories will lecture in Lockport as part of the Secret Weapons of World War II: Women, Books ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Students at Tuckaseegee Elementary School got a special lesson in Black history on Friday.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the Yankees can grow out their facial hair, according to an announcement by Hal ...

One by one, with canes, walkers, and wheelchairs in tow, these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II ...

In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.

On this day in aviation history, February 21, 1919, the Thomas-Morse MB-3 fighter made its first flight. This aircraft was ...

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Family members of Private First Class Elizabeth Bernice Barker Johnson say their phones have been ringing constantly from ...

The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.