The US Marine Corps has ordered the removal of all public displays of the Confederate flag from Marine installations. The Marines made the announcement Friday, following growing removals of ...

Harold George Schrier received the battalion’s American flag and orders to raise it on the summit of Mt. Suribachi and set up an observation post. Schrier, a battle-hardened former Marine Raider ...

Michael Strank. WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps acknowledged Thursday it had misidentified one of the six men in the iconic 1945 World War II photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

HIGASHI-SHIRAKAWA, Japan — Seventy-three years ago, a young Marine from Montana, deployed to the Pacific island of Saipan, stumbled across a body. A Japanese soldier, lying on his back, dead.

Marine Sgt. William Genaust was a combat cameraman during World War II, who was on Mount Suribachi when six Marines raised the American flag in what would later become an iconic image of the war.

Ten years ago today we watched as a U.S. Marine hung an American flag on the face of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. The image seemed to make good on the promise that ...

CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...

The father of a Marine who was killed in action in Afghanistan said vandals broke into his truck and stole a large American flag his son had over his bed before he went out on his last patrol.

When Anthony Stabile and other Marine Corps League members raise the flag above the restored Yorktowne Hotel on Nov. 11, they’ll keep a tradition alive. The Yorktowne was crowned with an ...

Eventually a Marine vehicle equipped with a giant crane was summoned. Tens of millions of people watched worldwide as McLaughlin’s American flag was briefly draped over the statue head of the ...