O n Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. Marines raised an American flag atop a mountain on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during a battle in WWII. A photograph of the moment taken by Joe Rosenthal, which became ...

Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on Friday after being airlifted ... said he had witnessed the raising of the United ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

Everyone recognizes the image of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. But what do you know about ... Iwo became a byword for fighting while it was still being fought. The U.S. military had hoped the ...

The actual memorial depicts the moment six Marines raised a U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the ... you that the request is being considered, but there are ...

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines ... the time a Japanese soldier smelled hot chocolate being brewed near him and called out for him to bring him some.

The spectacle in Kabul, Afghanistan is painful to watch from either side of the political aisle. In spite of President Biden’s effort to shift some responsibility to former President Trump, ...

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced a resolution recognizing the 80 th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which began on February 19, 1945, and lasted until March ...