From: Bobby Joe Pendleton II (bjpendleton@charter.net)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 12:31:35 PST
so do I
Southern by the grace of God
"I...Shall Remain Confederate"
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> From: "Stu" <stuinnh@mvnut.us>
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> Subject: Re: [MV] *SPAM* [MV] history - flame on shields are up with new
> anti-matter accessories - 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:54:44 -0500
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> 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!
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> Of Everette
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> Subject: *SPAM* [MV] history - flame on shields are up with new
> anti-matter
> accessories - 1945 Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
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> February 23
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> 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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