Wake Forest will honor veteran Bobby Gene Kemple with a flag-raising ceremony on April 14 after a weather delay, with ...

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an American flag, a moment that was captured by military photographers and later became an enduring symbol of the ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged on from Feb. 19, 1945, to March 16, 1945, leaving thousands dead and even more wounded. Yet one ...

A handful of retired Marines — all in the late 90s or over 100 — joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Prime ...

The service members are from left to right: Marine Corps Pfc. Ira Hayes ... "Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945." National Archives, 26 Sept. 2024, https://www.archives.gov ...

Despite the rain and cold weather Monday morning, the Kiwanis Club of Marietta gathered with members of the community to ...

Dozens of people attended the 80th anniversary of the flag raising on Iwo Jima Saturday ... by Conemaugh Valley Detachment 287 of the Marine Corps League. A ceremonial firing of volleys at the ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... During a 1993 speech at the Marine Corps War Memorial, Marine Corps Commandant ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the most important moments in U.S. Marine Corps and American history. Early in the campaign, the iconic flag-raising on February 23, 1945 marked the first time ...

On February 23, 1945, he captured the image that would become his most famous work, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ... and was later used as the basis for the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, ...