When Secretary Forrestal saw the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi, he said, "This means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years." And there is that flag-raising. The Associated Press ...

In early 1945, the Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an iconic shot of troops raising an American ... place a 150-pound flagpole atop Mount Suribachi. Other soldiers arrived ...

a photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The image quickly became a symbol of American patriotism and military sacrifice. Rosenthal's ...

Writer tells why he did not witness the raising of the flag on Iwo ... In his absence, the flag had been raised on Mt. Suribachi. The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.