Veteran's Day Nov. 11
Photo by Leatherneck's Sgt. Lou Lowery for Leatherneck Magazine

Chuck Lindberg, standing at right, the last living Iwo Jima flag raiser.

Pictured is the first flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23,1945. The raising was held by Easy Company at about 10:30 a.m. With the release of the Clint Eastwood-directed movie 'Flags of Our Fathers,' based on the book of the same name by James Bradley with Ron Powers, there is a renewed interest in the Battle of Iwo Jima and that momentous raising of the flag atop Mount Suribachi. The battle was arguably the most bloody and brutal of all the island campaigns of the Pacific War. While the identities of many of the men in 3rd Platoon (Reinforced), Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment involved in the patrol that raised the first flag have been previously lost to history, renewed research has yielded new insights into the correct names of those Leathernecks. In this first photograph, Lou Lowery has captured the Marines tying the American flag to a piece of Japanese water pipe.