Donald Earl Whipple, 99, was featured as the FOX31 Serving Those Who Serve Hero of the Month last December for his heroics ...

As part of Box Elder's weekend Veterans Day event, Thurman and other members of the flag-raising unit will speak about how they spent the Battle of Iwo Jima pinning down snipers on the mountain ...

He was killed in combat on March 3rd, 1945, eight days after the raising of the flag, and only a week before he was to turn 21. He was initially buried on Iwo Jima, but his body was moved to ...

It was exactly 80 years ago that six Marines raised the U.S. flag over the Japanese volcano island of Iwo Jima. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts swoops in to save Trump firing decision Star ...

The patriotic picture of the flag raising was taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photograph. The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is ...

But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. Advancing U.S. troops trying to establish the location of a Japanese ...

four bloody days after U.S. troops landed on Iwo Jima, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an image of Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The photo went on to ...

“Both types of bombardment had been going on for quite some time, and the sense was that Iwo Jima could be taken in three or four ... and I remember it well.” The flag raising lifted the spirits of ...

A 103-year-old Navy veteran in Rock Island was there when one of the most iconic World War II photos was taken. "I saw the flag raised on Iwo Jima," Henry Diedrich recalled of that February ...