U.S. Marines from the 22nd MEU (SOC) and Sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) are participating in joint exercises in the ...

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) concluded the ...

Marine Sgt. Louis Lowery, a photographer for Leatherneck magazine, captured this image of Marines raising an American flag for the first time atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.

For the United States Marine Corps, however, the Battle of Iwo Jima was more than one more island in a string of battles in an island-hopping campaign.The Pacific War was one of the most brutal in ...

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Strategically located 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific ...

It’s among the best-known photographs in American military history: six United States Marines raising an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II.

The United States Marine Corps corrected the identity of another one of the six men raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi in an iconic photo taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 ...

US Marines raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. The image, captured by Joe Rosenthal, is one of the most famous news photos of all time.

Now the Marine Corps is ... Iwo Jima Photo Under ... than 6,500 US servicemen made the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation and it is representative of the more than 70,000 US Marines, ...

More than 6,500 U.S. servicemen died in the battle at Iwo Jima, a tiny island 660 miles south of Tokyo that was deemed vital to the U.S. war effort because Japanese fighter planes based there were ...

Marine Sgt. Louis Lowery, a photographer for Leatherneck magazine, captured this image of Marines raising an American flag for the first time atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.

This iconic photo, taken February 23, 1945, by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, shows six US Marines raising the American flag over the battle-scarred Japanese island of Iwo Jima.