Museum offers new home to gun St. Paulites used to fire first American shots of WWII
Navy photo of the USS Ward’s Number Three Gun and its crew. They were Minnesota reservists credited with firing the first ...
On Feb. 23, 1945, Marines and Navy corpsmen staked symbolic claim to victory in one phase of WWII battle
The front page of the Deseret News on Feb. 23, 1945, as the Battle of Iowa Jima raged in the Pacific during World War II. U.S. raised the flag on Mount Suribachi that cay, displayed two days later in ...
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The Story Behind the World-Famous Photograph of U.S. Marines Raising the American Flag During the Battle of Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...
The Battle of Iwo Jima: A History
U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...