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Marine Corps Museum displays the iconic American flags planted on Iwo Jima for limited time
2+ hour ago (250+ words) The two American flags that U.S. Marines raised atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima are displayed at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., commemorating one of the fiercest battles in World War II. Each year, the museum briefly…...
8 rescued after boat capsizes at Marine runway construction site on Okinawa
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (354+ words) Construction vessels work at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in Oura Bay at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Nov. 27, 2025. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes) Eight crew members were rescued unharmed over the weekend after a work boat capsized at…...
Plans set to disinter USS Arizona unknowns from Hawaii cemetery 85 years after Pearl Harbor
1+ week, 3+ day ago (667+ words) The USS Arizona burns after being struck by Japanese bombs during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) The federal agency tasked with identifying unknown American service members has committed to exhuming the remains of dozens…...
Stormy weather reshapes US-Japan island defense training in East China Sea
1+ week, 4+ day ago (599+ words) A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force landing craft air cushion re-enters the water during an Iron First drill at Nakayama Beach on Tanegashima, Japan, March 2, 2026. (Keishi Koja/Stars and Stripes) TANEGASHIMA, Japan " Japan's only amphibious unit carried out a beach-landing drill…...
From the archives: US, Japanese troops compare food rations
2+ week, 1+ day ago (105+ words) From the archives: US, Japanese troops compare food rations'Stars and Stripes From the archives: US, Japanese troops compare food rations (Wayne Specht/Stars and Stripes) Takizawa, Japan, February 2003: Pfc. Louis Rivera, left, a soldier with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, Fort…...
Marines mark Guadalcanal’s 83rd anniversary with solemn ceremony on historic ridge
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (422+ words) Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational Force-Darwin traveled from Australia to the Solomon Islands to mark 83 years since…...
Restoration begins at Pointe du Hoc, site of famed D-Day Ranger assault
3+ week, 3+ day ago (619+ words) The Pointe du Hoc landing site in France's Normandy region as seen on Feb. 17, 2026. The American Battle Monuments Commission held a groundbreaking ceremony the same day to mark the start of an 18-month restoration project to revitalize the D-Day site....
Marines suspected of thefts in Tokyo, Hiroshima
3+ week, 3+ day ago (324+ words) Prosecutors, not police, decide formal charges under the Japanese justice system. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes) TOKYO " Japanese authorities are investigating two U.S. Marines for possible thefts totaling $65,000 or more since last fall, according to Japanese police and media reports recently....
Navy Seabee battalion that provided namesake for Okinawa base returns to island
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (461+ words) Capt. James Angerman, commander of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11, addresses members of the 4th and 11th battalions after a ceremony at Camp Shields, Okinawa, Feb. 2, 2026. (Justin Rayburn/U.S. Navy) A Navy Seabee unit with historic ties to Okinawa has returned to the island…...
Luxembourg museum sheds light on small army’s big history
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (943+ words) A life-size mannequin depicts a driver looking out the front windshield of his military vehicle as he drives a wounded colleague to safety during the fighting in Luxembourg during World War II. (Phillip Walter Wellman/Stars and Stripes) In 2016, at a…...