FALL RIVER – The City of Fall River Veterans’ Service Office invites the community to join in a solemn Day of Recognition for the End of the Battle of Iwo Jima on Friday, March 28.

In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields ...

(Wayback Machine) Among the changed portions of the text was the article's headline, which was originally, "Pima Indian Helped Raise American Flag on Iwo Jima During World War II." The headline of ...

The U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday that it was working to restore a deleted webpage hosting an iconic photo of six Marines hoisting an American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as well as content ...

The U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 removed a webpage about Ira Hayes, a Marine and Pima Nation member best known for being one of the six men who raised a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during WWII.

An archived version of the page, which can be viewed here, was titled “Pima Indian Helped Raise American Flag on Iwo Jima During World War II” and included an article dated Nov. 3, 2021 that ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the “contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will attend a memorial service in late March on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and Gen Nakatani, the Japanese ...

Frederick J. Ricard, a 19-year-old Marine from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was killed in action on March 14, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Ricard's death came just four months after his ...

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.