Caption | US Marines posing with the second flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945 ww2dbase | ||||||||||||||
Photographer | Joe Rosenthal | ||||||||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps | ||||||||||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 23 Feb 1945 | ||||||||||||||
Photos at Same Place | Iwo Jima, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||||||||
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Visitor Submitted Comments
2. ROBERT says:
23 Jun 2016 12:36:54 PM
If this is the outfit that put the 2nd flag up look a the M-1 CARBINES they (do not )have BAYONET LUGS on them.
So the Statue at ARLINGTON VA is wrong because the have BAYONET LUGS on the M-1 CARBINES .
23 Jun 2016 12:36:54 PM
If this is the outfit that put the 2nd flag up look a the M-1 CARBINES they (do not )have BAYONET LUGS on them.
So the Statue at ARLINGTON VA is wrong because the have BAYONET LUGS on the M-1 CARBINES .
3. David Stubblebine says:
23 Jun 2016 06:05:48 PM
The error of the bayonet lugs on the rifles in the Marine Corps Memorial has been well known since shortly after the monument was unveiled in 1954. After the contract was approved in 1951, the sculptor, Felix de Weldon, asked the Marine Corps for proper equipment so he could faithfully recreate it and the Marine Corps provided him with a 1950s carbine, complete with bayonet lug. The Marine Corps has long acknowledged that this was their error and not the sculptor’s.
23 Jun 2016 06:05:48 PM
The error of the bayonet lugs on the rifles in the Marine Corps Memorial has been well known since shortly after the monument was unveiled in 1954. After the contract was approved in 1951, the sculptor, Felix de Weldon, asked the Marine Corps for proper equipment so he could faithfully recreate it and the Marine Corps provided him with a 1950s carbine, complete with bayonet lug. The Marine Corps has long acknowledged that this was their error and not the sculptor’s.
4. Russ says:
3 Jun 2017 10:27:44 AM
Why the knit picking? The fourth marine from left/rear is brandishing a rifle with a bayonet, is he not?
3 Jun 2017 10:27:44 AM
Why the knit picking? The fourth marine from left/rear is brandishing a rifle with a bayonet, is he not?
5. Robert says:
5 Aug 2018 07:02:16 PM
Pictured from right to left Harlon Block from Weslaco, TX., unidentified, unidentified, Noe SanMiguel from Harlingen TX.
5 Aug 2018 07:02:16 PM
Pictured from right to left Harlon Block from Weslaco, TX., unidentified, unidentified, Noe SanMiguel from Harlingen TX.
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