Iwo Jima - Rare Photos, Map And 21st Marine Regiment Action Report
Marines in a forward position face Mount Suribachi on 22 Feb. 1945, the day before the patrols gain the top of the mountain and raise flags for all to see.
Sgt Lew R. Burmeister
An infantryman of "George" Company, 3d Battalion, 26th Marines moves quickly past a downed comrade in his advance toward the heights west of Motoyama Airfield No. 2 on 26 Feb. 1945.
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Some of the Third Marine Division combat correspondents, photographers and artists, March 1945.
TSgt J. A. Mundell
An unmanned Marine 75 mm howitzer, "Pack 75," and burning vehicles on the Iwo Jima beach testify to the intensity of the Japanese fire raining down on the Marines.
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A firing party renders honors with three rifle volleys at the dedication of the 4thMarDiv cemetery on Iwo Jima in March 1945. Each Marine division had a cemetery. All were closed in 1947 with remains repatriated and buried in a national or private cemetery.
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Photos, map and 21st Marine Regiment action report courtesy of Susan Strange
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Today in USMC History
1945 - Five Marines and a Navy corpsman raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.
1945 - Hershel “Woody” Williams earned the medal of honor.
Related Article: Flags Over Mount Suribachi By Maj Norman T. Hatch Marine Corps Gazette (February 2004)
















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