From: Thomas M McHugh (tmmchugh@msn.com)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 09:10:41 PST
I think it is great to get the articles. I read them & use my DELETE
key to kill all the negative flames.
Keep up the good work.
Tom McHugh, NJ
1952 M38A1
M-416 Trailer
MVPA, MTA, Red Ball
NJ State Commander Korean War Veterans Association
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Subject: Re: [MV] *SPAM* [MV] history - flame on shields are up with new
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> Hey Stu, That's what the Delete key is for. Use it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stu" <stuinnh@mvnut.us>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] *SPAM* [MV] history - flame on shields are up with new
> anti-matter accessories - 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
>
>
>>I thought you were only gonna send this history channel OT stuff to those
>> who request it! If nobody sent you email asking for it then nobody wants
>> it. Please stop sending this stuff to the rest of us. The fair thing to
>> do
>> is only send it to those who ask for it. As I said before, I have the
>> History Channel already. Please stop!
>>
>> "Stu"
>> Southern NH, USA
>> "Live Free Or Die"
>>
>> MVPA #14790
>>
>> 1967 M151A1 Jeep 1964 M416 Trailer
>> 1985 M1008 CUCV Pickup
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Everette
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:05 AM
>> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> Subject: *SPAM* [MV] history - flame on shields are up with new
>> anti-matter
>> accessories - 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
>>
>>
>> February 23
>>
>> 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
>> On this day, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raise the
>> American
>>
>> flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and
>> a
>> key strategic point. Later, Marine commanders decide to raise a second,
>> larger flag, an event which an Associated Press photographer captured on
>> film. The resulting photograph became a defining image of the war.
>> The amphibious landings of Marines, after severe and relentless bombing
>> of
>> the island, began the morning of February 19, 1945, as the secretary of
>> the
>> navy, James Forrestal, accompanied by journalists, surveyed the scene
>> from a
>>
>> command ship offshore. As the Marines made their way onto the island,
>> seven
>> Japanese battalions opened fire on the 9,000 Marines headed for them. By
>> that evening, more than 550 Marines were dead and more than 1,800 were
>> wounded.
>> In the face of such fierce counterattack, the Americans reconciled
>> themselves to the fact that Iwo Jima could be taken only one yard at a
>> time.
>>
>> A key position on the island was Mt. Suribachi, the center of the
>> Japanese
>> defense. The 28th Marine Regiment closed in and around the base of the
>> volcanic mountain at the rate of 400 yards per day, employing
>> flamethrowers,
>>
>> grenades, and demolition charges against the Japanese hidden in caves and
>> pillboxes (low concrete emplacements for machine-gun nests).
>> Approximately
>> 40 Marines finally began a climb up the volcanic ash mountain, which was
>> smoking from the constant bombardment, and at about 10 a.m. on February
>> 23,
>> a half-dozen Marines raised a small American flag on the peak--but not
>> before disposing of a Japanese officer who attempted to prevent them.
>> With
>> Mt. Suribachi claimed, one-third of Iwo Jima was under American control.
>> This first flag-raising was photographed by Marine photographer Sgt.
>> Louis
>> R. Lowery. On Lowery's way down Mt. Suribachi, he ran into AP
>> photographer
>> Joe Rosenthal and two other Marine photographers, PFC Bob Campbell and
>> PFC
>> Bill Genaust, who was shooting movies, informing them that the
>> flag-raising
>> they were looking for had already occurred, but encouraging them to check
>> out he view from the top of the hill. The three men continued up the
>> volcano.
>> Once atop Mt. Suribachi, Rosenthal attempted but was unable to find the
>> soldiers involved in the first flag-raising, deciding instead to
>> photograph
>> the second flag-raising, which featured a much bigger and more photogenic
>> Stars and Stripes. Lowery's film was sent back to military headquarters
>> for
>> processing via ordinary army post--and took a month to arrive.
>> Rosenthal's
>> film was sent by seaplane to Guam, and sent from there via radio-photo to
>> the United States. The photograph so impressed President Roosevelt that
>> he
>> ordered the men pictured in it to return home for a publicity tour.
>> Rosenthal later won a Pulitzer Prize for the photo, but for years was
>> forced
>>
>> to deny erroneous reports that he personally staged the second
>> flag-raising
>> and attempted to pass it off as the original.
>> Although the famous photograph has long led people to believe that the
>> flag-raising was a turning point in the fight for Iwo Jima, vicious
>> fighting
>>
>> to control the island actually continued for 31 more days.
>>
>> Deo adiuvante
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