Iwo jima flag

Inside a hall in Jarabina, a little Slovak Republic village of about 900 residents, there is a mural of Marines planting a United States flag on inhospitable rocky ground, while comrades raise their guns and arms in celebration.

“There they battled up Iwo Jima’s hill, Two hundred and fifty men But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again. And when the fight was over, And

Soldiers raising of American USA flag on Iwo Jima | Flags of our fathers, Iwo, Battle of iwo jima

For everything done and everything sacrificed. To all who dared to take an oath to protect and serve, thank you.

Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize winning AP photo of the Feb. 23, 1945 flag raising on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, was originally misidentified by military sources. Originally identified, from left, in this vintage graphic: Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley; Pfc. Ira Hayes; Sgt. Michael Strank; Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John H. Bradley; Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon; Sgt. Henry O. Hansen. The Marine at far right was later correctly identified as Cpl. Harlon Block, not Hansen. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal) Source…

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Arlington Cemetery's "Uncommon Valor"—The sculptor based the work on the famous grab-shot photo by Joe Rosenthal of the second flag-raising on Iwo Jima in WWII. Designer: Horace W. Peaslee

The United States Marine Corps War Memorial also called the Iwo Jima Memorial is a national memorial located in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. It depicts Marines Raising the American Flag over Iwo Jima and is dedicated to all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who died in the defense of the United States since 1775. Print Size 13x19 inches.

Glimpses of World War II, the conflict that changed our world, mostly exist in shades of black and white on film. From 1939 to 1945, ...