Word: suribachi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night they made Marine history, Carter and Harrell were riflemen of Company A of the 5th Division's 28th Marines-the regiment that planted the flags on Mt. Suribachi. It was March 2, long after Suribachi had been secured, and the 28th had moved into the line along the steep ravines of northern...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...
...Suribachi's Flag...
...many stories written about the famous flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi it has never been said where the flag came from. I have that story in two letters from my son, Ensign Alan S. Wood, U.S.N.R., communications officer on an LST, and I thought you might be interested...
...second time we hit the beach at Iwo the marines were taking over Mt. Suribachi. When they raised a little flag on top of the mountain, the marines on the beach cheered. A little later a marine came on board asking for a larger, flag, so I gave him our only large flag-which is the one pictured on the first page of TIME magazine last week [March 5 3:= We are-proud that it is our flag flying there...