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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 ...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American flag Saturday thousands of feet off the ...
80 years ago Marines raised flag over Iwo Jima in iconic moment
On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would ...
Look Back: 80th anniversary of the American flag raising on Iwo Jima
The front page of the Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during ...