Joe Rosenthal's Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima is one of, if not the single most, iconic images of the 20th century. But did you know that one of the Marines in the photo was a man from Arizona?

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 ...

Everyone recognizes the image of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. But what do you know about the place we were actually fighting for? s a memorial to the astonishing war slaughter of the modern age ...

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.

The story of the park is a complicated affair and has grown into a situation where it seems to languish without a foreseeable ...

On Nov. 10, 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, ...

Despite the success of the Stinger at Iwo Jima, the story stops here. Six months after American forces raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, Emperor Hirohito officially announced that Japan would ...

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 ...

On February 23, 1945, he captured the image that would become his most famous work, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, a photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the ...