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Personal
insights
into the battle to capture Mount Suribachi and subsequent flag raising
on Iwo Jima have been provided by Blaine Schriver, name changed as
a privacy courtesy, a very close friend and Marine Corps Veteran of these WWII Pacific battle campaigns;
Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and again during the Korean
War, that I've had the privilege of knowing for some 40+ years.
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Footnotes:
Click Text Links for additional in-depth information.
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The Guadalcanal
Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was fought between August 7, 1942 and
February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
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The Bloody Battle of
Tarawa, 1943.
The islet group of
Tarawa, about 2,400 miles southwest of
Hawaii, was held by the Japanese from 1941 to 1943 during World War II, and it fell to U.S. Marines of the
Second Division after a bloody 76-hour battle. Tarawa's military significance lay in its strategic position as the
entrance of the U.S. push through the central Pacific to the Philippine Islands.
The 76 hour Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater
of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19 – March 26, 1945),
or Operation Detachment, was a battle in which the United States fought for and captured
this Japanese held island stronghold.
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Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20,
2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II
photograph of the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima on Friday, February 23, 1945 at around 1:00 PM.
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The Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo
Jima Memorial) is a military memorial statue outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery and next to the
Netherlands Carillon, in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States. The memorial is dedicated to all personnel of the
United States Marine Corps who have died in the defense of their country since 1775. The design of the massive
sculpture by Felix de Weldon was based on the iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the
Battle of Iwo Jima by Associated Press photographer Joe
Rosenthal.
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reprinted from the following Marine Corps webpage;