On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an American flag, a moment that was captured by military ...

They were kids, mostly, not even old enough to vote, young enough to consider a 24-year-old captain the “old man.” Some were combat veterans, taking part in campaigns on islands named Guam, Tinian, Saipan. Many, though, were seeing their first live ...

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point. That moment, captured in black ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II started Feb. 19, 1945. It lasted until March 26, 1945. Iwo Jima is an island south of Tokyo. The United States launched an amphibious invasion on the island that was defended by about 23,000 Japanese army and navy ...

On this day in 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal took the most famous photograph of World War II. Rosenthal’s photo showed five Marines and one Navy corpsman hoisting the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

On the 75th anniversary of the horrific battle of Iwo Jima, Rene Gagnon, Jr., is still coming to terms with the fact that his father was not among the six Marines in one of the most iconic photos of the 20th Century: the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi.

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese island into a byword for desperate, deadly combat — and for American triumph. On Feb. 23, 1945, a ...

We’ve read about dozens of copies of the Declaration of Independence, hundreds of Revolutionary War musket balls and every variety of Lincoln relics conceivable. But perhaps the most numerous story submissions are about souvenirs brought home by men who ...

TOKYO — The Japanese website for Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima” opens with a pitch to go see a movie about “an island the world must not forget.” But it is the Japanese who have always pushed memories of the terrible battle for that ...