The veterans met at the Iwo Jima Memorial, in New Britain, with the cutting of a birthday cake for the Marines 249th birthday. One of the Marine vets, in attendance, was 101 years old who actually ...

Navy Chaplain Commander Garry Thornton Jr., Friends of the National World War II Memorial Chairman Josiah Bunting III, WWII Navy and Battle of Iwo Jima veteran Ira Rigger, Chairman of the Joint Chi… ...

On Nov. 10, 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, ...

Feb. 7: Branches weighted with snow lie near the Marine Corp Memorial of Iwo Jima under morning sun in Arlington, Va. after a blizzard. Residents of the U.S. capital and nearby states are faced ...

This replica Iwo Jima monument rests in the veterans Bicentennial Park on the waterfront of Fall River. ... in addition to being labeled as a World War II Memorial. Pictures don’t do it justice.

Honor bows to valor at Iwo Jima Memorial. ... that to meet someone who survived the battle of Iwo Jima is to look into the soul of courage, and to guess at what images haunt the mind.

James Bradley believes his father still raised the first flag on Iwo Jima. In this Feb. 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi ...

A groundbreaking at Veterans Memorial Park in Richfield brought together a handful of Iwo Jima veterans including Chuck Lindberg, the last surviving member of the group of Marines who raised the ...

One of the country’s most iconic images may be getting a makeover. The Marine Corps War Memorial -- often referred to as the Iwo Jima Memorial -- is in need of a little sprucing, according to a ...

Crime Police investigating after World War II, fallen Marine memorial defaced A replica of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Fall River was vandalized with what appears to be yellow spray paint last month.