From: Lee (barlowf@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 11:20:25 PST
I as well enjoy the history. I feel it's all related, but who am I
Lee
-----Original Message-----
>From: Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
>Sent: Feb 23, 2006 12:00 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>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 this was important, if you do not agree and your computer is like
>mine there is a tab that says "delete" use it - I do not post history very
>often and yes I have a list of people who wish to read it and most days I
>only send to them -- do hope you are as irate over other "off topic" posts
>as you seem to me about what I post -- and my history posts do have
>relevance to military vehicles... granted they do not try to buy or sell
>vehicles or parts, but there are things in life more important than trying
>to make a buck.
>
>I have used our list to seek advise about MVs and upon occasion give advise.
>
>Everette ------ out
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stu" <stuinnh@mvnut.us>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:54 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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