A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day ...

One of the troops photographed raising the US flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945 was misidentified, the US Marine Corp says. The famous picture was taken by the Associated Press after ...

This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima’s beaches to the historic flag-raising episode ...

Mr Persichitti served in Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Guam as a radioman second class on the command ship USS Eldorado, and was named in the New York State Senate’s Veterans Hall of Fame in 2020.