U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

This piece of American ... end of the war when the Germans would not give up,” said Bruce Patire whose father found himself in a dangerous situation at the end of World War II.

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women ...

But a World War II battle 80 years ago this month turned the Japanese ... Atop the rubble of war and volcanic eruption, they pitched forward and raised an American flag. A photographer for The ...

The front page of the Record on Feb. 26, 1945, published what is the most patriotic picture in American history: the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima during ...

Other photos flagged in the database but still visible Thursday included images of the World War II Women Air Service Pilots and one of U.S. Air Force Col. Jeannie Leavitt, the country’s first ...