World War II Photograph

Clambering up the lava-encrusted walls of Mount Suribachi, a Coast Guard combat photographer snapped this shot of Old Glory unfurled to the breeze a few seconds after Marines had planted it there on the Volcanic knob at the souther tip of Iwo Jima. Raising of the flag marked the end of the early stage of the fierce battle for Iwo and the mopping up of Japanese gun nests hidden in the caves of the volcano.