An artwork saluting both the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps and the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo ...

Hayes and the other surviving flag raisers were mobilized by the U.S. government to enhance national prestige. For getting out of Iwo Jima alive when too many of his brothers-in-arms didn’t, Hayes ...

Following the U.S. Department of Defense’s recent directive to scrub so-called DEI from its military websites, the Pentagon ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Ira Hayes is arguably Arizona’s most iconic World War II hero, as one of six Marines who famously raised the American flag at ...

Trump and his supporters are trying to purge ideas they dislike to chill the speech of opponents in public dialogue. It's ...

The 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima is best known for the photo by The Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal showing six Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi 80 years ago. About 70,000 American ...

Watching them reenact the raising of the flag reminds us that the legacy of Iwo Jima isn’t just history, it’s a torch being passed to the next generation.” Capturing the island of Iwo Jima ...

In honor of her grandfather, she was going to make every second count on Iwo Jima. It was the only ... On top of Mount Suribachi, where the flag raising immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic ...