On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags. The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic photograph by Joe ...

Marines raise the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. The Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal ...

Ira Hayes, left, a Pima from Arizona, helped four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the second flag on Mount Suribachi, Japan." An archived version of the webpage showed that as recently ...