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	Iwo Jima Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi
		And I might add that the reason we reached the top of Mount Suribachi without a single enemy shot being fired was because the Japs were still in their caves waiting for the bombardment to be lifted.
		Mount Suribachi was a [volcanic] mountain approximately 560 feet high and at the top it was a hollow...it was hollow on top, with about a 20, oh, I'd say a 20-foot ledge that you could walk all a-way around before this crater sank in.
		Suribachi was inactive at the time but we noticed smoke, sort of a vapor coming out of the ground up on this crater but it was purely inactive.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq87-3l.htm (1882 words)

	Iwo Jima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Near the narrow southern tip of the island stands Mount Suribachi, which was called by American bombers attempting raids "mount son of a bitchi".
		Mount Suribachi is an extinct volcano, which rises to an elevation of about 550 feet (168 m).
		To the north of Suribachi, inland from the beaches, the ground terraces successively upward, to form a broad tableland occupying most of the central section of the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iwo_Jima (1111 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mount Suribachi is the dominant geographical feature of Iwo Jima.
		The island is dominated by Mount Suribachi, a 546 foot (166 m) dormant volcanic cone situated on the southern tip of the island.
		Despite capturing Suribachi, the battle continued to rage for many days, and the island would not be declared "secure" until 31 days later, on March 26.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima (3716 words)

	HyperWar: USMC Operations in WWII: Vol IV--Western Pacific Operations [Chapter VI-5]
		Mount Suribachi itself imposed a mental hazard on the assault troops similar to that faced by the Allies in Italy a year earlier when they suddenly found themselves confronted by Mount Cassino.
		Since the distance between the forward elements of the 28th Marines and the base of Mount Suribachi was still significant for air strikes, naval gunfire, and artillery support, the combined force of air and artillery was again brought to bear against the Japanese before the Marines jumped off.
		To garrison the summit of Mount Suribachi during the coming night, 40 men from Company E remained on the crest; the rest of the regiment occupied positions around the base of the mountain.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/IV/USMC-IV-VI-5.html (7029 words)

	The First Iwo Jima Flag Raising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Out of the 40 man platoon that made the climb up Suribachi and raised the first American flag on captured Japanese territory, 36 were killed or wounded in the subsequent fighting on Iwo Jima.
		Surrounding Mount Suribachi were cliffs, tunnels, mines, booby traps and ravines.
		As a member of the first combat patrol to scale Mount Suribachi, he took his flame thrower up the steep slopes and assisted in destroying the occupants of the many caves found in the rim of the volcano.
	www.collectinghistory.net /iwojima (328 words)

	Iwo Jima
		Many large cannons were hidden on Mount Suribachi, a volcano in the middle of Iwo Jima.
		They had split off Mount Suribachi from the rest of the Japanese troops, but many marines had been killed.
		When the marines got to the top of Mount Suribachi, they raised an American flag attached to a long drainpipe to declare that Mount Suribachi had been captured.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215466/iwo_jima.htm?tqskip1=1 (1407 words)

	HyperWar: Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic [Chapter 4]
		Chapter IV The early morning of 20 February found units of VAC about to embark upon two distinct phases of the fight for Iwo Jima: the capture of formidable Suribachi in the south, and the long, exhausting drive to the north to clear the airfields and the remainder of the island.
		Severing Suribachi from the northern plateau had done little to damage the over-all defense system beyond partial disruption of communications between the mountain fortress and the other sectors.
		Mount Suribachi was one of several semi-independent sectors capable of continuing the battle with or without assistance.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-IwoJima/USMC-M-IwoJima-4.html (3152 words)

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		The objective for the Marines was to take over Mount Suribachi, which is a 550-foot volcanic cone at the southern tip of the island that dominates both landing beaches.
		Even though Mount Suribachi was taken over, it would still take a month of the most severe fighting in history to secure the island.
		On February 23, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi, a replica of the Iwo Jima Memorial was unveiled in Connecticut.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~njl (1860 words)

	Iwo Jima Memorial] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During World War II in the Pacific when, on 25 February 1945, the flag of the United States was raised atop Mount Suribachi, on the island of Iwo Jima, there remained more than 30 days of intense and deadly battle before the Marines would secure the island.
		Suribachi that fateful day had walked to the top of Suribachi with minimal problems.
		The photo of the transition of flags was taken as it happened as was the famous photo that is the basis for the Iwo Jima Memorial.
	15thengineer.50megs.com /iwo_jima_memorial].htm (1889 words)

	Iwo Jima Memorial
		One of its outstanding geographical features is Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano that forms the narrow southern tip of the island and rises 550 feet to dominate the area.
		By February 1945, U.S. troops had recaptured most of the territory taken by the Japanese in 1941 and 1942; still uncaptured was Iwo Jima, which became a primary objective in American plans to bring the Pacific campaign to a successful conclusion.
		At about 10:30 a.m., men all over the island were thrilled by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi.
	www.iwo.com /memorial.htm (687 words)

	WWII Veterans Committee
		The battle plan for Iwo Jima was for the Fourth and Fifth Divisions to move across the island, cutting it in half.
		After the capture of Mount Suribachi, the Fifth Division was to move up the western side of the island.
		By the 23rd of February sufficient Japanese positions had been destroyed and the 2nd battalion was able to mount a patrol which went to the top of Mt. Suribachi and raised the flag.
	www.wwiivets.com /IssueXIV/haynes_article.htm (915 words)

	The Marine Corps War Memorial
		One of its outstanding geographical features is Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano that forms the narrow southern tip of the island and rises 550 feet to dominate the area.
		By February 1945, U.S. troops had recaptured most of the territory taken by the Japanese in 1941 and 1942; still uncaptured was Iwo Jima, which became a primary objective in American plans to bring the Pacific campaign to a successful conclusion.
		At about 10:30 a.m., men all over the island were thrilled by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi.
	www.nps.gov /gwmp/usmc.htm (734 words)

	World War II Battle of Iwo Jima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The anniversary of the famous flag rising on Mount Suribachi is Feb. 23, and retired Sgt. Maj.
		At 8:30 a.m., the Marines headed toward the shores with the objective of capturing Mount Suribachi, which guarded the beaches.
		The Marines faced heavy gunfire from the Japanese perched on Mount Suribachi, where they were able to fire on any position the Marines established.
	www.dcmilitary.com /marines/hendersonhall/9_06/features/27509-1.html (673 words)

	Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima (Suribachi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the attack of the 28th Marines on the dominating height, a 37mm guncrew fires at caves at the foot of Suribachi suspected of holding Japanese gun positions.
		The six men who participated in the second or "famous" flagraising on Mount Suribachi were Marines, joined by a medical corpsman.
		There were two flags raised over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, but not at the same time.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003131-00/sec4a.htm (2274 words)

	Iwo Jima
		John has said that he was already across the island on the other side of Suribachi, at the airfield and heard someone yell, "there go the colors".
		John Adie who operates Feeney and Adie's tavern in Bayonne was with the Fifth Marine Division and was fighting at the foot of Mount Suribachi when five Marines hoisted the makeshift flag on top of the extinct volcano and became famous.
		When the second flag arrived at the top of Suribachi, the first flag was taken down, the larger one was fixed to the pipe and raised, that is when the famous photograph was taken.
	www.geocities.com /mnjhession/iwo_jima.htm (1694 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Battle of Iwo Jima: Alan Wood and the Famous Flag on Mount Suribachi
		The first flag to be raised on Mount Suribachi was considered too small to be recognized at a distance, and a larger banner was obtained from LST-779.
		“Suribachi was a few thousand yards down the beach on our left, and the front line, marked by some entrenched tanks, was only a few hundred yards down the beach.
		Late in the morning on February 23, the Marines managed to secure Mount Suribachi and raised a small flag.
	historynet.com /wwii/bliwojimaheroes (1087 words)

	Marine Corps News -> 13th MEU (SOC) Marines visit hallowed ground - where 'uncommon valor was a common virtue' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Straining their necks to see up the steep, slippery slope of Mount Suribachi, Marines and Sailors reflected upon the struggle and sacrifice of Marines, many of whom gave their lives low-crawling inch-by-inch up the mountain to secure the high ground.
		Most Marines and Sailors were flown into an airfield and hiked three miles to Mount Suribachi, a 550-foot volcanic cone at the island's southern tip.
		Others, from the Assault Amphibian Vehicle Platoon, E Company, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, conducted an amphibious landing of their AAVs onto the same Green Beach where Marines were pummeled by a wall of steel from the mountain and pillboxes and blockhouses along the beach perimeter in 1945.
	www.usmc.mil /marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookup/2001130135522 (769 words)

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		If there was any hope on the Japanese side of prevailing against the assault, then Mount Suribachi's early loss sent an unmistakable message to the defenders that their hopes were in vain.
		The flag-raising on Mount Suribachi quickly became a distant memory for those in the seemingly endless fight for their lives to the north, but the image captured by Joe Rosenthal helped rally the American people for what they feared would be even tougher campaigns to come: the assault against the Japanese home islands.
		Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi is recognized to be among the pictures that best represent America's experience in the 20th century.
	www.usmc.mil /cmc/32cmc.nsf/alldocs/8C67F35B09FBA2C5852568FD004FE322?opendocument (1608 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Iwo Jima vet wants flag role recognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		No, this is a fl-and-white of the smaller American flag first raised by Marines atop Mount Suribachi, earlier the same day.
		On the morning of Feb. 23, after a four-man reconnaissance patrol returned from the 550-foot summit of Suribachi, Jacobs, a member of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, says he was ordered to fill in for Easy Company's radioman on a combat patrol up the mountain.
		Parker Albee Jr., a history professor at the University of Southern Maine and co-author of "Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima," plans to identify Jacobs as the radioman in an upcoming paperback edition.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/02/18/iwo_jima_vet_wants_flag_role_recognition?mode=PF (1485 words)

	Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was the job of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, to capture Mount Suribachi.
		As a member of the first combat patrol to scale Mount Suribachi, Cpl Lindberg took his 72-pound flamethrower and started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top.
		As Cpl Lindberg would later remark, "Suribachi was easy to take; it was getting there that was so hard!" Of the 40-man patrol, thirty-six were killed or wounded in later fighting on Iwo Jima including Lindberg himself who would be shot through the stomach and arm a week later on 1 March, 1945.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /iwoflag.htm (726 words)

	Flags' Raised Top Mount Suribachi
		However, the flag was too small to be seen through the haze of battle, which was one account given for a second flag raising, and a larger battle ensign that measured 4' 8" X 8' was borrowed from LST 779 that was beached near the base of Suribachi.
		The first flag came down at the exact time the second flag was raised.
		Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer who was ascending Suribachi as Sergeant Lowery descended, arrived in time to take the picture of the second flag raising, which became the most famous photograph, as well as the most controversial, of the Pacific War.
	www.jacklummus.com /Files/Files_H/hotrocks_two_flags.htm (349 words)

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		Secure in a honeycomb of underground tunnels (there were seven stories under Mount Suribachi) that opened into cave entrances and reinforced bunkers, the Japanese were silent because they wanted more targets.
		Owens said that when he arrived in a later wave of troops, Iwo was already a living hell, its beach slippery from the gore of men blasted apart by artillery, mortar, and machine gun fire from atop Mount Suribachi.
		The Marines captured the peak of Mount Suribachi, but the Japanese still owned the interior and were rarely seen until they popped up and fired.
	www.havasunews.com /articles/2005/02/18/news/news02.prt (806 words)

	North Opinion / Viewpoint: All hands lifted flag on Iwo Jima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It generated the iconic photo by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising Old Glory at the top of Mount Suribachi.
		It seems there was an earlier, smaller U.S. flag planted at the summit of Mount Suribachi.
		Both flags were raised during the fourth day of the battle, well before victory was certain, and Marine losses were mounting in the face of a fanatic defense by the Japanese.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05054/461337.stm (715 words)

	honoring Charlo
		It is not well known that two flags were raised on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.
		There have been accounts which say Charlo was not a part of the raising of the flag, that he was a part of the reconnaissance mission which secured the Mount Suribachi.
		We know without doubt or hesitation that Charlo was on Mount Suribachi that historic day of February 23, 1945.
	www.aipc.osmre.gov /AIPC05/CharlesCharlo.htm (392 words)

	An immortal moment
		When Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal climbed atop Mount Suribachi as Marines struggled to take the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945, he captured what many consider the greatest photograph of all time.
		The island is dominated by Mount Suribachi, a 546-foot dormant volcano.
		Upon landing on the island, Rosenthal hurried toward Mount Suribachi, trying to find the Marines who had raised the first flag in hopes he could get a group picture of them beside it before it was taken down.
	www.montney.com /marine/joe.htm (873 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Mount Suribachi, the 550-foot-high extinct volcano on the southern end of the island, was assaulted by the Twenty-eighth Marines on February 20.
		He was buried in the Fifth Marine Division Cemetery near the base of Mount Suribachi; in January 1949 his body was taken home for private burial in Weslaco.
		In 1995 Block's body was moved from Weslaco to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbl52.html (450 words)

	Post-Crescent - Iwo Jima vets won’t forget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Six decades later, the memories of fighting and triumph on Iwo Jima remain vividly clear in the mind of Chrapla, 83, a former Neenah alderman and retired teacher and financial analyst.
		Chrapla saw a first, smaller flag go up on Mount Suribachi in midmorning on Feb. 23 only to be replaced later on in the day by the larger flag featured in Rosenthal’s photograph.
		Chrapla’s unit was set up at the base of Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano.
	www.wisinfo.com /postcrescent/news/archive/local_19947885.shtml (885 words)

	PARADE Magazine \| The Unsung Filmmaker Of Iwo Jima--February 20, 2005
		Its craggy topography is dominated by the extinct volcano, Mount Suribachi, a scarred hump that rises 556 feet above sea level.
		Suribachi’s Japanese gun installations were trained on the fl, volcanic sands of the beach and created a hell fire.
		Genaust’s friends prepared a plaque, and in 1995 it was installed atop Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust took his rightful place along with Joe Rosenthal as the men whose pictures immortalized the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history.
	archive.parade.com /2005/0220/0220_iwo_jima.html (1101 words)

	Sulfur Island
		The island is five miles long, running northeast from a neck of sand at the base of the Mount Suribachi volcanic cone and spreading to a width of two and a half miles in the shape of a paint spill, with Mount Suribachi (really a 550-foot hill) as the can of paint.
		There were Johnny Carson's "Mount Suribachi" tag lines.
		They hung their dog tags at Suribachi's peak, on a bas-relief of the flag-raising mounted on a granite plinth.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/200406/iwo-jima (1563 words)

	The Stars & Stripes Greatest Hits: Conquering Iwo Jima and the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 28th Regiment, 5th Division, was ordered to capture Mount Suribachi, which overlooked the landing beaches and had been transformed into a hellish nest of gun emplacements, pillboxes, fortified caves, tunnels and storage depots.
		Because conditions were crowded inside the spacecraft, the flag was mounted on the ladder of the lunar module (the landing craft).
		Several layers of insulation were placed between the shroud and the flag assembly, limiting the temperature experienced by the flag to 180° F. To reduce the size of the flag package, scientists designed a telescoping flag pole.
	www.geobop.com /symbols/world/na/us/flag/2 (2812 words)

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