View of members of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division as they raise an American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Strategically located 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific ...

Marine Sgt. Louis Lowery, a photographer for Leatherneck magazine, captured this image of Marines raising an American flag for the first time atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.

Iwo Jima is a tiny, 8-square mile island, about one-tenth the size of Catalina Island. Iwo Jima means “sulfer island” in Japanese and is 660 miles south of Tokyo.

What is believed to be the last hide-and-go seek champion on Iwo Jima island, Japan’s Yamakage Kufuku, turned himself in to American authorities on Jan. 6, 1949.

One of the men depicted in the famous photograph of Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima was misidentified more than 70 years ago, the U.S. Marine Corps said Thursday.

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal/AP Photo ...

"When you fight that hard to get to raise that flag, it never gets old looking at that American flag." The Battle of Iwo Jima in February and March 1945 was one of the bloodiest battles of World ...

Seventy-five years after the Iwo Jima flag raising in World War II, ... U.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Japan, in 1945. (Joe Rosenthal/AP) ...

Elwood "Woody" Hughes, who died Feb. 2, 2021 at age 95, landed on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on Feb. 22, 1945, the day before the flag-raising. (Elk Grove High School) ...

GREATEST GENERATION Photographer Joe Rosenthal in July 2000, with his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the U.S. Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.

The Battle of Iwo Jima began after American forces invaded the island on Feb. 19, 1945. The battle lasted for five weeks and was considered one of the bloodiest military campaigns of World War II ...