In addition to the usual celebrations for veterans, the community rededicated its Iwo Jima Memorial, which had been in ...

But what about the Marine citation Ziehme has for meritorious service on Iwo Jima and “being with the platoon which placed the first flag on Mount Suribachi”? Any Naval doctor could have ...

At age 98, Peter Senick of New Haven is among Connecticut's younger World War II veterans, a diminishing cohort in the state ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

In 1943, the U.S. Army and Navy jointly began a two-pronged attack through the central Pacific and across New Guinea to the ...

But he didn't tell us he helped raise the flag on Mount Suribachi." Rupert Wingfield-Hayes retraces the steps of those who fought in the Iwo Jima battle Another famous Associated Press photo - the ...

With Veterans Day right around the corner, New Britain High School students cleaned up a one-of-a-kind memorial. With rakes ...

On Veterans Day, dozens of people came together to honor veterans at the National Iwo Jima Memorial in Newington. It was a ...

FILE – U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 23, 1945. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File) “That battle was unbelievable ...

On February 23, 1945, he captured the image that would become his most famous work, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, a photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the ...

If you do the math, that means he was just a teenager when he witnessed — and took part in — a truly historic moment nearly ...