JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A ceremony to observe the 80th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 22 at the Sgt. Michael Strank Memorial Park in Franklin Borough.

Another presentation at one o’clock will feature Brent Westermeyer who discovered that an Iowa Marine was part of the famous flag raising on Mount Siribachi at Iwo Jima. “Harold Keller from ...

The presentation by Kiel Gentry from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, will share the extraordinary journey of the two historic flags that flew over Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. His ...

Duane Tunnyhill talks about the war in 2015 with a group of World War II veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima at the Bohemian ... as the soon-to-be-iconic flag-raising took place there.

Corporal Don Graves was in a fox hole on Iwo Jima, close to Japanese lines, when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima ...

Beginning at 1:00 PM historian Brent Westemeyer will present on the participation of Brooklyn, Iowa, native Corporal Harold “Pie” Keller as a U.S. Marine Corps infantryman and flag raiser during the ...

The photo of U.S. Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi after the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima against the Japanese is iconic. But there’s so much more to know about this brutal ...

The actual memorial depicts the moment six Marines raised a U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, which left about 7,000 Marines ...

Jack Lummus' professional football career ended the moment a landmine blew off both of his legs at Iwo Jima. Lummus, a Marine Corps first lieutenant who died on March 8, 1945, at the age of 29 ...

Flyboys is the second book by James Bradley, whose first book, Flags of Our Fathers , about the Marines who planted the flag at Iwo Jima, was a bestseller. Bradley is the son of one of the flag ...