On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags. The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic photograph by Joe ...

Feb. 24—The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the ...

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an American flag, a moment that was captured by military photographers and later became an enduring symbol of the ...

When Secretary Forrestal saw the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi, he said, "This means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years." And there is that flag-raising.

The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed by controversy after the Pentagon ...

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

"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. On the day the Stars and Stripes was unfurled on Mount Suribachi — twice ...

a photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The image quickly became a symbol of American patriotism and military sacrifice. Rosenthal's ...