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Video Clip
Flag raised on Mt. Suribachi February 23rd.
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1. The assault began with shelling of the island
from ships at sea.
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2. Next, 120 planes strafe the island with
napalm and gunfire.
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• 3. 60,000 Marines conduct amphibious landing on
  island.

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The pacific
Video clip
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Japanese used kamikaze attacks on offshore ships.
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• Japanese were hidden in underground tunnels
  caves.
• Japanese told not to surrender.
• Marines lured into pill box nests and fired upon.

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• Flamethrowers and grenades used to clear tunnels.
• Japanese lost 21,570 men.
• 6,821 U.S. Marine KIA.
• Battle raged for 36 days.
• Valued as an airstrip 625 miles southwest of
  Tokyo.
• Convinced the U.S. that an invasion of the
  mainland would not be easy.

Hbo website
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic
photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe
Rosenthal. It depicts five United States
Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag
of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during
the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
1945 Over 137 million sold
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The photograph was extremely popular, being
reprinted in thousands of publications and
winning the Pulitzer Prize for photography. It
came to be regarded in the United States as one
of the most significant and recognizable images
of the war.
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• Of the six men depicted in the picture, three
• 1. Franklin Sousley
• Harlon Block
• Michael Strank
• were killed during the battle the three
  survivors
• John Bradley
• Rene Gagnon
• Ira Hayes
• became celebrities upon their identification in
  the photo.