TUSooner
2/23/2007, 01:19 PM
With a salute to Homey...
One of the most famous photographs in American history, and maybe the world, was taken on February 23, 1945, as five men from E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, along with a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman raised the American flag atop Mt. Surabachi on the island of Iwo Jima. The entire island was taken from the Japanese after another month of especially vicious fighting, during which three of the six flag raisers were killed.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2345/iwojima2pv7.gif
But this famous photo was not the first flag raising on Mt. Surabachi .
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9017/iwojima1bg1.gif
Here's the first.
After the first flag went up, a Marine Colonel had it taken down and replaced with a bigger flag (reportedly to keep the first flag away from the Secretary of the Navy who was on the island and who wanted the flag); the second flag raising became the famous photo.
One of the most famous photographs in American history, and maybe the world, was taken on February 23, 1945, as five men from E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, along with a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman raised the American flag atop Mt. Surabachi on the island of Iwo Jima. The entire island was taken from the Japanese after another month of especially vicious fighting, during which three of the six flag raisers were killed.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2345/iwojima2pv7.gif
But this famous photo was not the first flag raising on Mt. Surabachi .
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9017/iwojima1bg1.gif
Here's the first.
After the first flag went up, a Marine Colonel had it taken down and replaced with a bigger flag (reportedly to keep the first flag away from the Secretary of the Navy who was on the island and who wanted the flag); the second flag raising became the famous photo.