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 ...

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.

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

On this day in 1945, the American flag was raised at Iwo Jima to signal the capture of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island, by U.S. Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo ...

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo ...

But few Viking explorers could match what Martinson, 98, experienced 80 years ago: the invasion of Iwo Jima, considered by ...

Veterans to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the First U.S. Flag Raised on Iwo Jima Japan in Monticello Sunday.

The flag raised atop Mount Suribachi Back on the line the morning of the fifth day, Jessor looked at the opposite end of the island to see something in the distance atop Mount Suribachi, the dominant ...

Since 2011, local scouts have reenacted the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima each June during the annual Union County Veterans' ...