A handful of retired Marines — all in the late 90s or over 100 — joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Prime ...

A teenager who lives in Fremont was among twelve Young Marines who traveled to Iwo Jima, Japan to honor the 80th anniversary ...

Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. In short ... "Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945." National Archives ...

"Johnny Cash wrote the song, 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,' with these words included about his life after his service and what it had done to him: 'When war came, ...

Hayes and the other surviving flag raisers were mobilized by the U.S. government to enhance national prestige. For getting ...

It was 80 years ago today when the Allies won the Battle of Iwo Jima after a month of intense fighting with the Japanese. Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in ...

The deletion of the Iwo ... Jima flag-raising page — which was believed to have occurred because the webpage and photo emphasized the contributions of Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, in the ...

Rating: In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran best known for appearing in a photograph of six men raising a flag ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while ...

The photograph of the flag raising during the Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the most iconic images of World War II, taken months into the battle by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.

Hegseth landed on Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto, the island where Japanese and American soldiers faced off in one of the war’s fiercest ... six Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi ...