Saturday, February 23, 2013

Iwo Jima Day

On this date in 1945, five U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima.  Photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the moment in this famous photograph.

Semper Fi!

1 comment:

  1. There's a statue of this in Washington DC, my favorite monument.

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