It’s among the best-known photographs in American military history: six United States Marines raising an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II.

For the second time, the Marines corrected who was raising the American Flag on Mount Surabachi in the iconic Battle of Iwo Jima photo.

The Marine Corps is investigating whether some of the six men in the photo of the 1945 flag-raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, were misidentified after two amateur historians raised questions about the ...

One of the six men long identified in an iconic World War II photograph showing the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima was actually not in the image, the Marine Corps announced Thursday ...

The list of heroes immortalized in the iconic photo of the U.S. flag being raised over Iwo Jima has been revised again. The Marine Corps acknowledged on Wednesday that for 74 years, it had ...

One of the six men believed to have been part of the iconic moment when an American flag was hoisted at Iwo Jima was misidentified, the Marine Corps confirmed. An investigative panel led by a ...

A new hero has been named as one of the six Marines famously photographed raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during WWII — as the Marines Corps on Wednesday admitted it misidentified a ...

View of members of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division as they raise an American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. (Photo by Joe Rosenthal/Photo 12 ...

More than 74 years after Marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps has announced that one of men in the most famous picture of World War II had been ...

Marine Corps officials have determined that two men pictured in the first flag raising on Iwo Jima were misidentified just months after they found mistakes in another famous photo from that day.

The image of Marines raising the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi in Japan during World War II is one permanently etched into the mind of every Marine. It’s a symbol of the Corps ...

One of the six men long identified in an iconic World War II photograph showing the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima was actually not in the image, the Marine Corps announced Thursday ...