In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages mentioning Pfc. Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation who served in the U.S ...

The 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima is best known for the photo by The Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal showing six Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi 80 years ago. About 70,000 American ...

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 Pacific ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on March 29 went to the Pacific island of Iwoto, better known to the world as Iwo Jima ... depicting U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi ...

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 ...