On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would ...

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

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

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 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 island of Iwo Jima during ...

At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt ...

The flag raised atop Mount Suribachi Back on the line the morning of the fifth day, Jessor looked at the opposite end of the island to see something in the distance atop Mount Suribachi, the dominant ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Strank is a revered historic figure and military hero in both the United States ...

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo ...

the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II. “Five days, one hour and 30 minutes after American Marines of the Fifth Division waded across ...

But few Viking explorers could match what Martinson, 98, experienced 80 years ago: the invasion of Iwo Jima, considered by ...

His job as a combat correspondent meant that he was to write about American valor and, hopefully, victory. But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle ...