Veterans to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the First U.S. Flag Raised on Iwo Jima Japan in Monticello Sunday.
US Marines launched a scathing attack on Iwo Jima island during World War II. Capturing the island, about eight kilometres ...
A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...
Eighty years ago this week, U.S. Marines landed on the tiny island of Iwo Jima, 660 miles south of Tokyo. Iwo Jima was a key objective to win World War ...
Japanese troops often carried small national flags signed in ink by their friends ... “In my spiritual life, I practice the ways of my Native American ancestors,” he said during the ceremony.