U.S. service members raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, on Feb. 23, 1945. The Marine Corps is investigating whether some of the men in the photo have been misidentified.

The 32-foot-tall Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. Felix de Weldon's 1954 bronze depicts five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi as Allied forces ...

He had never before seen the iconic 78-foot-tall bronze statue depicting American GIs raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of World War II.

The Iwo Jima West Foundation wants to buy the original Felix de Weldon cast stone sculpture and move it to California.

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, ...

The image of the Marines raising the flag was captured in 1945 by Associated Press photographer ... It was later the inspiration for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial statue in Arlington ...

A sculpture showing U.S. Marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima is shown in this 1981 photo. ... This shows the full-size Marine Corps War Memorial statue in Arlington National Cemetery, ...

“When the flag went up, on day five, we still had 31 more days of fighting—and most of the casualties took place after the flag raising. Close to 7,000 Marines were killed in the 36-day battle.” ...

On this day in 1945, the American flag was raised at Iwo Jima to signal the capture of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island, by U.S. Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

View of members of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division as they raise an American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. (Photo by Joe Rosenthal/Photo 12 ...