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irisblue

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Sun Feb 23, 2020, 10:43 AM Feb 2020

This day on Mount Suribachi, 1945

Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) Tweeted:
On this date February 23 in 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman reached the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and were photographed raising the American flag. Photo by Joe Rosenthal. #OTD https://t.co/KgCmM3kFZn




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This day on Mount Suribachi, 1945 (Original Post) irisblue Feb 2020 OP
I posted about the Smithsonian digitizing videos of the battle/flag raising packman Feb 2020 #1
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