U.S. Marines and sailors landed on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, ultimately capturing it in one of World War II's most significant battles. The fierce fighting resulted in 27 ...

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Later Worth became an officer and commanded a team of military dog handlers in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was an eyewitness to the iconic flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi. After the war, Worth ...

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Whipple, 99, fought in the Pacific during World War II and earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded by a mortar shell upon landing on the island of Iwo Jima. He was named this months FOX31 Serving ...

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Joe Rosenthal was the Associated Press photographer who took the Iwo Jima photo – now there’s a street named after him in San Francisco ...

“But the Marines took Iwo Jima.” This month, Rosenthal, who died in 2006, is being honored in San Francisco, where he lived for most of his life: Officials have renamed a downtown block of ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Joe Rosenthal, AP war photographer, sits with copies of his famous Iwo Jima picture at the Einsen-Freeman Co ...