Standing on an Iwo Jima beach, Jack Thurman of the 5th Marine Division said, watching the American flag rise above Mount Suribachi gave him the desire to carry on while serving his country in ...

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. CBS Chicago Posted: February 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 ...

Dozens gathered in Franklin Borough Saturday to honor the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The Conemaugh Valley Marine Corps Detachment held a ceremony at the Sgt. Michael Strank ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...

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 ...

Severance, who became a pilot after Iwo Jima, laughed when he recalled that story, pointing out that the P-38 only had a range of about one-third of the nearly 4,000 miles between Hawaii and Iwo Jima.

Flag raising on Iwo Jima On Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. forces took Mount Suribachi and were photographed raising the American flag at the summit. The iconic photo won Rosenthal, the photographer, a ...