When he was sent on a combat patrol to capture the summit of Suribachi, someone in his platoon carried an American flag from the transport ship Missoula. The Navy corpsman from Wisconsin helped ...

A National Park Service brochure incorrectly lists "Navy hospital corpsman John H. Bradley" as a participant in the historic flag-raising on Iwo Jima. (Military.com photo/Richard Sisk) Private ...

The photo shows six servicemen—five Marines and one Navy corpsman—working together to raise a large American flag on a makeshift pole. Taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima where over 6,800 ...

Around the same day he received his first rations, he also watched as the American flag was raised on Mount Suribachi. On Feb. 23, five days into the battle, five Marines and one Navy corpsman ...

Five days into the battle, Griego was performing first aid at the base of a hill when he saw five Marines and one Navy corpsman raise the flag. It’s an image that lives on as the Marine Corps ...

Harry Chandler, a Navy corpsman who witnessed the Pearl Harbor ... On the morning of Dec. 7, he was preparing to raise the hospital’s flag when he heard the roar of airplanes, he recalled ...

The Navy welcomed Chandler and by the time he was 20, he was a hospital corpsman, surrounded by the ... He had hoisted the American flag on the lawn at 'Aiea Heights, an area just north of the ...

(WWLP) – The United States of America flag and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ... who served in the United States Navy as a Corpsman for ten years, was 28 years old when he died on January ...