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  • US search team on Iwo Jima looking for Marine who filmed iconic flag-raising

    06/22/2007 2:11:52 AM PDT · by Clive · 15 replies · 1,343+ views
    Associated Press via Sun Media ^ | 2007-06-22 | Eric Talmadge
    TOKYO (AP) - A U.S. search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the iconic flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later, officials told The Associated Press Friday. The seven-member search team is looking for the remains of Sgt. William H. Genaust, who was killed in action after filming the flag-raising atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. The team is also searching for other U.S. troops killed in the battle - one of the fiercest and most symbolic of...