Hayes and the other surviving flag raisers were mobilized by the U.S. government to enhance national prestige. For getting ...

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 ...

With neither beauty nor bounty to its credit, the volcanic island of Iwo Jima entered history with ... the straining Marines raised the U.S. flag in a scene captured for posterity in a famous ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed.