This Day in History - Flag Raising
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Today marks the 67th anniversary of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. The invasion started on the 19th and it took the next 4 days to make it up the mount Suribachi. I won't go through all the details as I think everyone knows them. Here are some images:

 

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The first flag raising by SSGT Louis R. Lowery,

 

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The USMC Memorial in DC - I had my 2ndLt bars pinned on there at the monument in Dec 1999

 

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The stamp

 

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The current memorial on Suribachi

 

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The Picture

 

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Mt Suribachi in the distance

"Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress." PhoM3c. Robert M. Warren, ca. February/March 1945. 26-G-4474

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