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 Marines of 3rd Platoon of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, affixes flag to twenty-foot water pole found in crater of Mount Suribachi prior to raising the first flag over Iwo Jima.

 First Lieutenant Harold George Schrier, Platoon Sergeant Ernest Ivy ("Boots") Thomas, Jr., Henry Oliver ("Hank") Hansen, and Corporal Charles W. Lindberg, unfold the 54 x 28 inch flag, obtained from attack transport USS Missoula (APA-211), and raised at 1020 Hours.