World War II Photograph

The situation atop Mount Suribachi is well in hand as Marines give the Stars and Stripes to the breezes that blow over the crater of Iwo Jima’s volcano. Going up with the invaders through a maze of deadly crags, hiding pillboxes that spouted death, a Coast Guard combat photographer caught Old Glory at the historic moment when she fluttered in triumph over the bitterly defended knob at the southern tip of Iwo.