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Joe Rosenthal on His Iconic Picture of Iwo Jima

  By erica • February 18, 2014 Uncategorized

Photographer Joe Rosenthal remembers taking the picture of the marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. Continue reading

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Letters From Iwo Jima: Private First Class Robert Hall Ayers

  By mbirck • February 14, 2014 Uncategorized

Below are exerpts from an e-mail received from the daughter of USMC PFC Robert Hall Ayers who served on Iwo Jima at the time of the invasion of the island in February 1945. "…My dad's unite [sic] was attached to the 5th Amphibious Corps during this assault. He has never … Continue reading