In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men ra ...

It was exactly 80 years ago that six Marines raised the U.S. flag over the Japanese volcano island of Iwo Jima. Trump’s 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports take effect, Europe retaliates ...

Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...

But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese ...

Dozens gathered in Franklin Borough Saturday to honor the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The Conemaugh Valley Marine Corps Detachment held a ceremony at the Sgt. Michael Strank ...

four bloody days after U.S. troops landed on Iwo Jima, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an image of Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The photo went on to ...

He was killed in combat on March 3rd, 1945, eight days after the raising of the flag, and only a week before he was to turn 21. He was initially buried on Iwo Jima, but his body was moved to ...

The patriotic picture of the flag raising was taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photograph. The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is ...

Monticello native Earnest "Boots" Thomas, sitting in the foreground holding a rifle, was part of the first unit photographed raising a flag after the battle of Iwo Jima. Thomas was killed eight ...