Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six ...

On February 23, 1945, he captured the image that would become his most famous work, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, a photograph of U.S. Marines ... and was later used as the basis for the Marine Corps ...

these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II Memorial for a brief ceremony. Men who witnessed one of the toughest fights in American history: the Battle of Iwo Jima.

In Photos U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23 ... pass the Marine Corps War Memorial, Mr. Rosenthal ...

The Iwo Jima memorial site of the only one of its kind in the world because it was built by those who survived the battle.

80 years ago, six marines raised a United States flag over the Japanese volcano island of Iwo Jima. Many veterans held a celebration at the Legacy of Liberty WWII Memorial Park at the Shangri-La ...