War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content. That's according to a database obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by U.S. officials. It includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content.