Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 660 miles south of Tokyo, was of interest to the U.S. military ... to raise the American flag there. The photographer promptly filed his photos with editor ...

The Marine Corps has opened an investigation into whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American ... most enduring images of World War II, and the flag raisers ...

It’s one of the most iconic images from World War II: a group of U.S. Marines raising the American flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima. And now the U.S. Marine Corps admits it has long misidentified ...

In early 1945, the Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an iconic shot of troops raising an American flag on the Japanese ... purchase to fund the military, and the ad helped ...

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop ... by the Marine Corps with assistance from the FBI looking closely at previously private photos shared with them ...