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 ...

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 ...

The top Marine says the Confederate battle flag “has the power to inflame feelings of division” as one of his reasons for his call to “exclude from our Corps public displays” of the battle flag ...

Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops famously planted an American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, died Monday at his home in La Jolla. He was 102. There were actually two ...

Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003.

The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) banned display of the Confederate flag at its military installations Friday, on everything from bumper stickers to coffee mugs. "The Confederate battle flag has all too ...

From the time Marine recruits enter boot camp, they’re told that the service is colorblind — that there are no white Marines, brown Marines or Black Marines. Everyone is Marine green. “That statement, ...

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 was 102.