U.S. Navy sailors man the rails as the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on March 23, 2012, for a deployment to the Western Pacific.

The USS Chung-Hoon’s crest. (U.S. Navy) While the details of the battle flag are hard to make out in photos of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, it consists of the ship’s crest of Hawaiian ...

U.S. Marines raise a large American flag to replace a smaller flag first raised at the summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps) By the time Rosenthal reached the ...

Raising the standard of history. Around a dozen preserved Civil War battle flags are on public display in the "Follow the Flag" exhibit at The Ohio History Center, with most being stored off site.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

For the first time, our nation's American flag was flown in battle, on this day in history, Sept. 3, 1777, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware. Here's the background.

The rare regimental battle flag, long thought lost to history, was carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry and captured by Union forces during Pickett's Charge in the Battle of Gettysburg. A rare ...