On this day in 1945...
On this day in 1945, four days after the initial landing on Iwo Jima during World War II, 1st Lt Harold G. Schrier led 40 men from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, up Mt. Suribachi to secure the crest and raise the American flag that battalion commander Lt Col Chandler Johnson had given Schrier. Within an hour, the patrol reached the rim of the crater and a small American flag was raised over the island. This iconic photo shows the raising of a larger flag later that day.
Flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi during Battle of Iwo Jima