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

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

The Marine Corps League held their 25th annual Iwo Jima Day Event in the Massachusetts State House to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the famed Pacific theater battle, with one of the last living ...

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

But the conquest of Iwo Jima, despite the famous flag-raising four days into the battle, did not come for another month. On the day the Stars and Stripes was unfurled on Mount Suribachi — twice ...

From Trump proclamation: "Five days into the conflict, six Marines ascended the island’s highest peak and hoisted Old Glory ...

Christopher Mahoney explained to the audience why it was so important to the country and to Marines to remember Iwo Jima and what men just like Joe Cappuccio did there. The 36-day long battle for ...

Joesphy was a military war correspondent during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. His voice can be heard frequently in the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Recordings Collection – preserved by the Library ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Marine Corps has corrected the identity of another of the men who were photographed raising the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II ... Joe Rosenthal shot the ...