As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on March 26, one of the battle’s veterans is reaching his own milestone. On ...

Alfred Lewis, a WWII veteran who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, opens a birthday gift from the crew of the USS Bougainville during a ceremony for Lewis at Singing River Island in Pascagoula on ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

(WLOX) - Ingalls Shipbuilding serves as an all too familiar site for World War II Navy veteran Alfred Lewis ... Fast forward to now, and the newest USS Bougainville is now under construction ...

A national peace strategy is needed to rebuild the crumbling foundations of peace in PNG from the ground up, say Miranda Forsyth and Sinclair Dinnen.

one of the last living World War II veterans on the Mississippi Coast. Lewis turns 98 years old on Tuesday, March 25, and the crew of the Bougainville — one of the ships currently being built at ...

The small luxury line is particularly known for sailings to remote places such as Antarctica, the Arctic, and islands in the ...

a Pima Indian Paramarine who fought on Bougainville and Iwo Jima in the Pacific during World War II and was one of the six Marines who raised the second flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle ...