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To: SunTzuWu; xkaydet65

There WAS a photo of the first flag raising.

The first flag raising atop Mt. Suribachi. Jim Michels holds the gun with (left to right) Hank Hansen, Boots Thomas, Harold Schrier and Chuck Lindberg behind. Photo by Lou Lowery. 10AM, Feb. 23, 1945

94 posted on 05/27/2006 8:37:33 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))

To: AnAmericanMother

This is a still taken from the Marine film. If you watch the whole shot it's quite simple yet moving, I think more so than the film footage of the second flag, shot from the same angle as Rosenthal's.But the remarkable image taken by Rosenthal was evident as it appeared in the soup at the foto lab on Guam where it was developed.

BTW if you want to see what IMHO is the finest and most emotional moving picture image of the war you have to see the re raising of the Flag on Midway during the attack by the Japanese on 4 June 1942. It's greatness lies not only in the subject but in the fact it was filmed by Hollywood legend John Ford.

102 posted on 05/27/2006 8:46:29 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (Peace, Love, Brotherhood, and Firepower. And the greatest of these is Firepower!)

To: AnAmericanMother

holds the gun

Rifle, not a gun. A gun is a large caliber crew served weapon.

200 posted on 05/28/2006 3:12:30 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham

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