The patriotic picture of the flag raising was taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photograph. The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is ...

A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day commemoration event in France. Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on ...

Dozens gathered in Franklin Borough Saturday to honor the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The Conemaugh ...

Titled “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” the iconic photograph shows six soldiers hoisting the American flag atop Mount Suribachi. And the man at the rear of the group was Hayes. The picture won ...

In honor of her grandfather, she was going to make every second count on Iwo Jima. It was the only day ... On top of Mount Suribachi, where the flag raising immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s ...

Pfc. Ira Hayes, left, was one of the six Marines to appear in the famous World War II photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ depicting the second flag-raising on the summit of Mount ...

and in its place a copper flag has been raised. When a treaty is signed this week or next, the U.S. will officially return to the Japanese the Bonin and Volcano Islands, of which Iwo Jima is one ...

In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages mentioning Pfc. Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation who served in the U.S ...

Robert "Al" Persichitti, of Fairport, New York — who served as a radio man aboard the USS Eldorado and witnessed the U.S. flag being raised on Iwo Jima in 1945 — died on the morning of Friday ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark ... a group of US Marines raising the American flag on the rubble-covered ...

The deletion of the Iwo Jima flag-raising page — which was believed to have occurred because the webpage and photo emphasized the contributions of Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, in the Pacific ...