U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would ...

On the 80th anniversary of the first U.S. flag raising on Iwo Jima, World War II veterans are honored for their service in ...

Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S.

The 36-day long battle for control of a heavily fortified pacific island, fought from the 19th of February through the 26th ...

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt ...

The Marine Corps League held their 25th annual Iwo Jima Day Event in the Massachusetts State House to commemorate the 80th ...

February 23 is an day Dick Jessor marks every year. Now 100-years-old, he still remembers the moments he and his fellow ...

A celebration was held in honor of the 80 year anniversary of the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima at the Legacy of ...

The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: ...