SAN FRANCISCO — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima — will have a block in downtown San Francisco named for him Thursday. After the war, he went to work as a staff photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle, …
The battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest battles fought during the United States Pacific campaign against Japan, during World War Two. The 36-day battle for control of the tiny island of Iwo Jima, located around 1,200 kms off the coast of Japan, started on February 19, 1945, and saw the death of 18,500 Japanese soldiers and almost …
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