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Vol. 1 No. 216
Flag Goes Up On Iwo Jima ….. With Jap snipers’ bullets whizzing by, Leathernecks of Co. E, 28th Inf. Regt. of the Fifth Marines, raise the Stars and Stripes atop the extinct volcano, Mt. Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. The picture was taken three days ago by Associated Press Cameraman Joe Rosenthal, flown to Guam, radioed to San Francisco, wirephotoed to New York and radioed to Paris.