Titled “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” the iconic photograph shows six soldiers hoisting the American flag atop Mount Suribachi. And the man at the rear of the group was Hayes. The picture won ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop ... for American forces? The answer is simple. The U.S. needed Iwo Jima's airbases.

But that was the second time Marines raised an American Flag on Iwo Jima that day. The first flag raising, while never becoming an iconic image like the second, is certainly cherished in Monticello.

He was on the deck of the Eldorado when he witnessed the raising of an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on Feb 23 1945. It was a moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe ...