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Description 80-G-304854: Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March 1945. Fifth Division Marines grouped behind their light machine gun, display Japanese battle flags captured during the first few days of the bloody fight for Iwo Jima. It was the men of the Fifth Division who fought their way to the top of Mount Suribachi to raise the American flag on the rim of the crater. Photographed released, February 25 1945. U.S. Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/01/19).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/23871411814 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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