Word: suribachi
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...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...
...Neither of these flag raisings was official: last week, when Admiral Nimitz formally took possession of the island, the U.S. flag was run up near the base of Suribachi with traditional ceremony...