From: Stu (stuinnh@mvnut.us)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 05:54:44 PST
I thought you were only gonna send this history channel OT stuff to those
"Stu"
1967 M151A1 Jeep 1964 M416 Trailer
-----Original Message-----
February 23
1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and a
command ship offshore. As the Marines made their way onto the island, seven
A key position on the island was Mt. Suribachi, the center of the Japanese
grenades, and demolition charges against the Japanese hidden in caves and
to deny erroneous reports that he personally staged the second flag-raising
to control the island actually continued for 31 more days.
Deo adiuvante
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who request it! If nobody sent you email asking for it then nobody wants
it. Please stop sending this stuff to the rest of us. The fair thing to do
is only send it to those who ask for it. As I said before, I have the
History Channel already. Please stop!
Southern NH, USA
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accessories - 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
On this day, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raise the American
key strategic point. Later, Marine commanders decide to raise a second,
larger flag, an event which an Associated Press photographer captured on
film. The resulting photograph became a defining image of the war.
The amphibious landings of Marines, after severe and relentless bombing of
the island, began the morning of February 19, 1945, as the secretary of the
navy, James Forrestal, accompanied by journalists, surveyed the scene from a
Japanese battalions opened fire on the 9,000 Marines headed for them. By
that evening, more than 550 Marines were dead and more than 1,800 were
wounded.
In the face of such fierce counterattack, the Americans reconciled
themselves to the fact that Iwo Jima could be taken only one yard at a time.
defense. The 28th Marine Regiment closed in and around the base of the
volcanic mountain at the rate of 400 yards per day, employing flamethrowers,
pillboxes (low concrete emplacements for machine-gun nests). Approximately
40 Marines finally began a climb up the volcanic ash mountain, which was
smoking from the constant bombardment, and at about 10 a.m. on February 23,
a half-dozen Marines raised a small American flag on the peak--but not
before disposing of a Japanese officer who attempted to prevent them. With
Mt. Suribachi claimed, one-third of Iwo Jima was under American control.
This first flag-raising was photographed by Marine photographer Sgt. Louis
R. Lowery. On Lowery's way down Mt. Suribachi, he ran into AP photographer
Joe Rosenthal and two other Marine photographers, PFC Bob Campbell and PFC
Bill Genaust, who was shooting movies, informing them that the flag-raising
they were looking for had already occurred, but encouraging them to check
out he view from the top of the hill. The three men continued up the
volcano.
Once atop Mt. Suribachi, Rosenthal attempted but was unable to find the
soldiers involved in the first flag-raising, deciding instead to photograph
the second flag-raising, which featured a much bigger and more photogenic
Stars and Stripes. Lowery's film was sent back to military headquarters for
processing via ordinary army post--and took a month to arrive. Rosenthal's
film was sent by seaplane to Guam, and sent from there via radio-photo to
the United States. The photograph so impressed President Roosevelt that he
ordered the men pictured in it to return home for a publicity tour.
Rosenthal later won a Pulitzer Prize for the photo, but for years was forced
and attempted to pass it off as the original.
Although the famous photograph has long led people to believe that the
flag-raising was a turning point in the fight for Iwo Jima, vicious fighting
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