Over one million minted commemorative coins honoring the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps this year officially went on ...

Sands of Iwo Jima 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 ...

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

“But the Marines took Iwo Jima.” This month ... Other soldiers arrived to help, working in tandem to hoist the flag, and Rosenthal snapped a photo. Rosenthal died in 2006 at age 94.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — had a block in ...

In early 1945, the Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an iconic shot of troops raising an American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. It became one of the most famous images ...

An SFMTA worker installs the Joe Rosenthal Way street sign to honor Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima ...

they fought as Marine infantrymen at Guadalcanal. 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 ...

Rosenthal won a Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. "America was suffering through World War II and that picture just showed the ...