Sunday November 10th is the 238th Birthday
of the United States Marine Corps
"Semper Fi"
The Marine Corps Memorial was created from this picture taken
by Joe Rosenthal of the Asscocited Press
Joe Rosenthal caught the flag raising on February 24th 1945 at the top of Mount Suribachi on the small isand of Iwo Jima. That afternoon the Marines had cleared the slopes of enemy resistance and raised the U.S. flag. Raising the flag are 5 Marines and one Navy Corpsman: Sgt Michael Strank, Cpl Harlon H. Block, Pfc Franklin R. Sousley, Pfc Rene A Gagnon, Pfc Ira Hayes and PhM.2/c John H. Bradley.
Unfortunately 3 of these men would lose their lives as fighting continued on Iwo Jima. The three killed were Strank, Block and Sousley.
May God bless them and all our service men and women.
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