The first flag-raising ceremony on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima February, 23, 1945.
Marines of the 28th Regiment, Fifth Marine Division, hoist the U.S. flag on a piece of pipe at about 10:20 Hrs on 23 February 1945, after they had captured the summit of Mount Suribachi. This took place some 17 minutes before the famous flag-raising immortalized by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
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