In this Feb 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan.

REDDING, Calif. — Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at ...

The book’s storyline centered around the flag-raising in Iwo Jima and the famous photograph that came from it. A movie adaptation of the book directed by Clint Eastwood was released in 2006 ...

More than 6,000 Americans died in the fight for Iwo Jima. During the first flag raising, the Marines of Easy Company tied the flag to a section of pipe and held it aloft.

RICHFIELD, Minn. -- Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg spent decades explaining that it… ...

In a statement released Wednesday, the Marines said two men long thought to have participated in the first flag-raising on Feb. 23, 1945, had been nearby but hadn't raised the flag.

Charles W. Lindberg, the only remaining survior of the six U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima duing World War II, died at age 86.

Two Marines found a piece of Japanese drainage pipe, while five others affixed the flag. Around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 23, 1945, the first American flag went up over Iwo Jima.

Hatch came in with the first wave at Iwo Jima, a battle that killed nearly 6,000 Marines. From that day to this one, he insists there was nothing posed about the flag photo.

No one, he said, believed him when he said he raised the first flag at Iwo Jima: “I was called a liar.” He spent his final years trying to raise awareness of the first flag-raising, speaking ...