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Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima
It is one of the most powerful photographs in American history, the "Gung Ho' raising of the American flag by fives US marines and one navy sailor. It marked the end of the bloody battle of Iwo Jima in Japan that took the lives of 7,000 Americans and 20,000 Japanese.
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