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"The Deed Is All, And Not The Glory": Solving The Mystery Of The Unknown Flag Raiser Of Iwo Jima

“The Deed Is All, And Not The Glory”: Solving The Mystery Of The Unknown Flag Raiser Of Iwo Jima

On June 23rd, the Marine Corps publicly acknowledged that a previously unidentified Marine named Harold H. Schultz was one of the six men pictured in what is arguably the best-known image of the last century: Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the 1945 flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

In making the announcement, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller noted that while the…

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Old Glory on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945. [x]

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70 years ago today, the 5th Marines hit the beach on Iwo Jima and began what would become the bloodiest battle in Marine Corp history. Semper Fi!

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A Memorial

On the morning of February 19, 1945, the fourth and fifth divisions of the United States Marines invaded Iwo Jima after a 72-hour bombardment.

Four days later, the men of the 28th regiment of the fifth division captured Mt. Suribachi. Five Marines and a Navy corpsman planted the U.S. flag in what would become one of the most inspiring and motivating photographs of the war.

In 1954, President…

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