SAN DIEGO — Dave Severance, the commander of the Marine troops who planted the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II, died Monday at his California home, his family announced Wednesday. He ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, Marines and Navy corpsmen staked symbolic claim to victory in one phase of WWII battle.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dave Severance, the Marine ...

Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops famously planted an American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, died Monday at his home in La Jolla. He was 102. There were actually two ...

This July 7, 2021, photo shows retired Master Sgt. Dayton C. Meadows III at his MercerCounty property in Ghent, West Virginia. (Kenny Kemp/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP) When retired U.S. Marine ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dave Severance, the Marine ...