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Franklin Sousley was just 19 when he landed on Iwo Jima, but his bravery would live on forever. As one of the Marines who ...
-- James Bradley, the author of "Flags of Our Fathers," is convinced that his father John Bradley did raise an American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, but not the one captured in the iconic ...
Half a dozen Marines raise the American flag on Iwo Jima. It is Feb. 23, 1945. Wire service photographer Joe Rosenthal captures the image: the flag, at a 45-degree angle, beginning to unfurl in ...
An American need only look at a photograph of the American flag raising during the Battle of Iwo Jima or listen to "The Star-Spangled Banner" to recognize the importance that the Stars and Stripes ...
Clint Eastwood’s $65 million World War 2 box office bomb is given high marks for realism by a former Marine Corps special ops ...
But the flag also stands for legacies of courage and sacrifice that should give us all hope and strength, like the classic World War II image of GIs raising it over Iwo Jima.
To celebrate the Fourth of July here are 13 —signifying the original 13 states — movies that celebrate what it means to be ...
The 'Dirty Harry' filmmaker made some bold statements about the 'Do the Right Thing' writer-director, who made several ...
By BECKY SHAY - The Billings Gazette - 01/21/06 Jan 21, 2006 0 ...
Unlike the other iconic war photos from the Great War and the Second World War, however, this photograph is an icon of a conflict that is overshadowed in Canadian remembrance, even sometimes forgotten ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — There were funnel cakes, stands of festival bling and American flags aplenty. There were mighty machines of war, brought out to dazzle and impress. And there was the spray of tear ...