Caves may shed light on Iwo Jima Marine
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Avoiding unexploded grenades and hacking their way through cactus under a blazing sun, an American search team has located two caves where they believe a Marine who filmed the iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima may have been killed 62 years ago in one of World War II's most symbolic battles.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, US Marines descended yesterday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They found bloodstains and a single bloody handprint on the wall -- evidence of the horrors once carried out in this former insurgent stronghold.
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Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82.
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Could the rock island arsenal be called upon to help even more with production for our US military? Currently workers are busy making armor plated doors Like these for hum-vees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The underwater grave of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor is being analyzed by computer modeling software to prevent an oil spill from the wreckage.
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Divers have finished mapping a twisting subterranean waterway that winds through 95 miles (153 kilometers) of the Yucat&#225;n Peninsula's limestone caverns.
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Of all the images I saw on a short visit to Iraq last week, two stand out in my mind. One was a display that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Sunni Triangle, prepared for the
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The Pentagon says its millimeter-wave pain ray won't be ready until 2010. But Marines in Iraq want to use the "holy grail of crowd control" at checkpoints now. In Danger Room.
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Standing by a vehicle touted by the military as one of its most effective defenses against roadside bombs, Marine Staff Sgt. Tim Kessler couldn't help but sound pleased. Operating the so-called mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles in and around the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, two Marines in...
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Captain Paul Fowler sat on the curb next to a deserted gas station. Behind him, smoke rose over Fallujah. His company of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles had roamed the eastern third of the city for 13 days, shooting holes in every building that might pose a threat, leaving behind a landscape of half-collapsed houses and factories ...
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor Â the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were too intimidated by extremists to tell authorities until now.
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Maj. Sean Stinchon stands at the base of Hill 362A and scans a map drawn up by Navy Seabees in 1948 that is deeply creased and covered in reddish brown dirt. The map shows a labyrinth of caves and tunnels that runs through the brush-covered hill like the cross-section of an ant colony.
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BERLIN  &#151; Clint Eastwood says he found that U.S. veterans of the 1945 fighting on Iwo Jima were curious to know about the Japanese side of the story &#151; chronicled in his Oscar-nominated "Letters From Iwo Jima."
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea in the 1960s arrived on a remote  Japanese island Tuesday to start what he said was the "last  chapter" of his life with his wife and two daughters.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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A University of Alabama scientist and other researchers have found coral growing at extreme depths in the Gulf of Mexico &#151; on several ships sunk during World War II by Nazi submarines.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 15--There's something croaking at the International Wildlife Museum.