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.
Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later ...
An Oakland man who served in World War II turned 100 years old and had some things to say about the country that called him ...
Colonel Reginald Bassa, Sr., a Tuskegee Institute graduate, served a successful 30-year career in the United States Air Force ...
Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of ...
Tyler Perry's most-watched Netflix film has revealed the hidden history of WWII's only all-black, all-woman battalion with Maryland ties.
From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...
Marvel’s choice to make a Black man the face of American exceptionalism raises questions the film never answers, despite Mackie embodying the duality of Black patriotism.
Praesidus unveils the Iwo Jima 80th Anniversary models ✓ Watches commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima ...
The Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center in Kansas City features the Smithsonian's Black Wings exhibit, highlighting the ...
In a 10-minute film from 1945, future-President Ronald Reagan tried to convince America why it needed flyers like the Tuskegee Airmen.
The USS Becuna submarine sank 3,888 tons of shipping and earned four battle stars in World War II.