In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages ...

Prominent Native American figures in U.S. military history have been erased from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website as ...

Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six ...

After widespread criticism, the Defense Department has begun restoring links to Navajo Code Talkers on its websites.

The most iconic of these shows six Marines raising the American flag, using their bodies to push the flagpole upright and mark Allied dominance of the island. The photograph actually depicts the ...

“In that sense, it was transformative for me, and I remember it well.” The flag raising lifted the spirits of the Marines on the island, and later it did the same for a war-weary American public at ...

The Department of Defense initially defended the removal of a website honoring Jackie Robinson, the first Black Major League ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...