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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Joe Rosenthal, a veteran AP cameraman, who took the famous picture of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, holding camera. (Bettmann via Getty Images) That photo shows the second flag that was erected on ...

(Staff. Sgt. Jonathan McElderry/U.S. Air Force) Just months later in February 1945, Genaust was among the tens of thousands of Marines who landed on the beach of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19. The bloody ...