DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes — then restored one, with changes
In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...
Smithsonian Magazine1mon
The Story Behind the World-Famous Photograph of U.S. Marines Raising the American Flag During the Battle of Iwo Jima
Film footage taken of the flag-raising in action proves the photo ... Officials quickly capitalized on the photo, using an illustration based on Rosenthal’s portrait to raise $26 billion ...
The Hindu2y
The raising of the flag over Iwo Jima - the story behind the photograph
What the battle is best known for, however, is an image captured by Associated Press photojournalist Joe Rosenthal— six soldiers, raising the American flag over a mountain. The struggle for ...
Tallahassee Democrat26d
80 years later, Monticello remembers 'Boots' Thomas, hero behind the first Iwo Jima flag
Hours after the initial flag raising, a Marine officer deemed the flag too small and ordered a second, larger flag to be raised. While Thomas had already spoken to a radio station about the ...
The Times Leader1mon
Look Back: 80th anniversary of the American flag raising on Iwo Jima
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history ...