80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in ...

“In that sense, it was transformative for me, and I remember it well.” The flag raising lifted the spirits of the Marines on the island, and later it did the same for a war-weary American public at ...

The most iconic of these shows six Marines raising the American flag, using their bodies to push the flagpole upright and mark Allied dominance of the island. The photograph actually depicts the ...

The purge, which also targeted multiple webpages about women and LGBTQ service members, highlights how aggressively military ...

As Ukrainian casualties spiral after years of war, a military band has the melancholy but key task of bidding farewell to troops and raising morale ... lifted a Ukrainian flag from a coffin ...

On this day in 1945, the American flag was raised at Iwo Jima to signal the capture of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island, by U.S. Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

With American soldiers still fighting in the Pacific theater, my father joined a war bond tour, lurching around the United States with some of the flag-raising soldiers to drum up financial ...

On February 23, members of the Brevard County Detachment of the Marine Corps League on Merritt Island hosted a get-together at Beef O’Brady’s of Melbourne in honor and remembrance of those whose ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the American flag raising on Mount Suribachi by five Marines and one Navy corpsman that took place on Feb. 23, 1945. The patriotic picture of the flag ...

Col. Matt Morgan, it was years of research and dogged forensic analysis. The 1945 photo of six Marines raising a flag on Mt. Suribachi -- an image that Navy Secretary James Forrestal famously said ...

Flores is one of the many marines at the Legacy of Liberty WWII Memorial Park in honor of the raising of the flag. The park is a replica of the Iwo Jima monument. "Even after all these years ...