Feb. 23, 2025, marks 80 years since one of the most powerful and patriotic images was taken of war — the U.S. Marines raising ...

It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, one of World War II’s most decorated Marines, received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross ...

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 ...

The lead ship of this class, the USS Essex, played a vital role in the landings at Iwo Jima and the campaign against Okinawa. Like the other carriers on this list, the Yorktown-class aircraft ...

Duane Tunnyhill talks about the war in 2015 with a group of World War II veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima at the Bohemian Cafe in Omaha. “I had to use the hard sell,” Tunnyhill told The ...

When other cruise lines — most notably Royal Caribbean — are building larger and larger cruise ships, Disney will be making three of its future ships smaller than its recent ones. Disney says ...

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The Iowa Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge in Johnston is hosting an event Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Goldstar curator Mike Vogt says a presentation at 10:30 a ...

As TPG's cruise team lead, Gene Sloan oversees the site's cruise content and also writes many of TPG's main cruise guides. He has spent nearly 30 years writing about cruise ships and cruising, and he ...

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