The legacy of Michal Strenk (Mykhal Strenk in Ruthenian or Michael Strank in English), a native of the Ruthenian village of Jarabina in eastern Slovakia who served in the US Army, is still relevant ...

Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete ...

Standing on an Iwo Jima beach, Jack Thurman of the 5th Marine Division said, watching the American flag rise above Mount Suribachi gave him the desire to carry on while serving his country in ...

In 1945, Hayes was one of six men famously photographed raising an American flag on Iwo Jima.

DOD removed pages about Native American Iwo Jima veteran Ira Hayes — then restored one, with changes In 1945, Hayes was one of six men famously photographed raising an American flag on Iwo Jima.

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men raising a flag on Iwo ...

On the 80th anniversary of the first U.S. flag raising on Iwo Jima, World War II veterans are honored for their service in Monticello.

Rosenthal's picture of the American flag raising, as widely reported, occurred on Feb. 23, 1945, several days after the Marine landing on Iwo Jima.

Monticello native Earnest "Boots" Thomas, sitting in the foreground holding a rifle, was part of the first unit photographed raising a flag after the battle of Iwo Jima. Thomas was killed eight ...

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 ...