The last several years have featured milestone anniversaries for some of the fiercest and most memorable events of World War II including the attack on Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the ...

America’s World War II generation is referred to as “The Greatest Generation.” But if one had to nominate a particular group ...

I am writing to express my concerns about the proposed expansion of the water treatment plant in Firestone. The town has ...

Joseph Caminiti is a veteran who drives himself to the gym every weekday for an hour-long workout that includes cardio and ...

Caminiti has been active or going to the gym since he was a child. He had a paper route as a kid and used to go to a Boys ...

At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt ...

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 ...

On the 80th anniversary of the first U.S. flag raising on Iwo Jima, World War II veterans are honored for their service in ...

On this day in 1945, six U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the island of Iwo Jima on the fourth day of what would ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S.