The Marine Corps is investigating whether some of the six men ... flag-raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, were misidentified after two amateur historians raised questions about the famous image and statue.

In 2016, the Marine Corps said it had wrongly identified another of the men in the ... in American military history: six United States Marines raising an American flag over the Japanese island ...

In a statement Wednesday, the Marines said two men long thought to have participated in the first flag-raising on Feb. 23, 1945, were nearby but didn’t actually help raise the flag. The ...

He had never before seen the iconic 78-foot-tall bronze statue depicting American GIs raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi ... The Marines were sent in to rescue Army soldiers surrounded ...

"Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag ... second raising but was missing in action and presumed killed late in the battle. Official inquiries by the U.S. military and ...

On February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured one of the most enduring images of WWII: six men raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo ...

Discriminatory Equity Ideology is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our military ... "Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945." National Archives, 26 Sept.

In response, officials decided the military ... with the flag-raising picture—in Congress, as the basis for the Seventh War Loan drive, as the basis for numerous statue and memorial suggestions ...