PHOTO - FIRST FLAG RAISING IWO

"The First Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima", 23 February 1945

Marines of the 28th Regiment, Fifth Marine Division, hoist the U.S. flag on a piece of pipe, at about 1020 Hrs. on 23 February 1945, after they had captured the summit of Mount Suribachi.

This shot, taken by Staff Sergeant Louis R. Lowery, USMC, staff photographer for "Leatherneck" magazine, was some seventeen minutes before the famous flag-raising immortalized by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.

Holding the flagpole are Sergeant H.O. Hansen, Platoon Sergeant E.I. Thomas, and First Lieutenant H.G. Schrier. In the foreground Private First Class J.R. Michaels stands guard with an M-1 Carbine. Corporal C.W. Lindberg is behind him.

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