Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Feb. 23, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – As a Conemaugh Valley-based Marine Corps League marked the 81st anniversary of the Iwo Jima flag raising, ...

Hartford HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey Flaks announced plans for a new Hartford Hospital tower. The project will include a new patient arrival center, a healing garden, 250 private smart rooms, ...

The Marine Corps League’s Detachment 287 will commemorate the 81st anniversary of the flag raising atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in Franklin Borough. The borough in ...

A 100-year-old veteran who survived the Battle of Iwo Jima recounts his experience and the freedom he's enjoyed since the Allies won World War II. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Marine Corps on Thursday corrected the identity of a second man in the iconic photograph of U.S. forces raising an American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. After ...

HOMEWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Memorial Day celebrations and tributes took place around the United States to honor the men and women who served in our Armed Forces. One local Marine has spent years ...

Born in 1926 in New Orleans, Charles Calvin Holdeman Jr. grew up through the Great Depression, waiting in soup lines and packing his shoes with cardboard when they wore thin. At 17, with World War II ...

A military historian has won the first round in a battle to recover $175,000 from the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, which lost several photographs from an album it borrowed from the collector, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Texas — About 750 miles off the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean is the tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima. At only eight square miles, it is more than five times smaller than Disney ...