U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. (Joe Rosenthal/AP) The image of Marines raising the American flag on top of ...

SAN DIEGO — Dave Severance, the commander of the Marine troops who planted the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II, died Monday at his California home, his family announced Wednesday. He ...

SAN DIEGO — Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops were the first to plant an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 102.

The Marine Corps is officially barring symbols depicting the Confederate battle flag from public spaces on Marine Corps installations — a move that comes following George Floyd’s death in police ...

(CNN) -- Some say it's the most famous, perfectly composed news photo of all time. Sunday marks 75 years since Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the iconic photograph of six US ...

The Marine Corps has corrected the identity of another man photographed raising the US flag on Iwo Jima during the World War II battle on the island. The Corps previously corrected the identity of ...

My Marine Corps training hit me. They’d gas us every year for fun, just for training, not just in boot camp, you got it later, too,” Evans told Task & Purpose over the weekend. “One of the things you ...

The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday ordered all public displays of the Confederate flag removed, a ban that extends to bumper stickers, clothing, mugs, posters and more. The order directs Marine Corps ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- More than nine years after her son was killed in Iraq, a northeast Harris County mother will receive a tribute flag to him she never knew about. "It's all I think of right now. I can ...

The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with ...

The United States Marine Corps is banning the public display of the confederate flag at its military installations in the U.S. and around the world. Those new guidelines were being shared with all ...