“In that sense, it was transformative for me, and I remember it well.” The flag raising lifted the spirits of the Marines on the island, and later it did the same for a war-weary American public at ...

The most iconic of these shows six Marines raising the American flag, using their bodies to push the flagpole upright and mark Allied dominance of the island. The photograph actually depicts the ...

The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: ...