Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

On the 80th anniversary of the first U.S. flag raising on Iwo Jima, World War II veterans are honored for their service in ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

On February 23, members of the Brevard County Detachment of the Marine Corps League on Merritt Island hosted a get-together at Beef O’Brady’s of Melbourne in honor and remembrance of those whose ...

On this day in 1945, the American flag was raised at Iwo Jima to signal the capture of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island, by U.S. Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

While Thomas had already spoken to a radio station about the historic moment, it was the second ... of Iwo Jima and the moment Thomas was killed just eight days after the flag raising.

“Both types of bombardment had been going on for quite some time, and the sense was that Iwo Jima could be taken in three or four ... and I remember it well.” The flag raising lifted the spirits of ...

A celebration was held in honor of the 80 year anniversary of the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima at the Legacy of ...

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines who raised the American flag on Iwo ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: ...