{"id":123194,"date":"2022-02-23T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=123194"},"modified":"2022-02-23T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:11:07","slug":"77-years-ago-today-the-flag-was-raised-at-iwo-jima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=123194","title":{"rendered":"77 years ago today, the flag was raised at Iwo Jima"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In what became perhaps the most famous American photo of all time, an iconic image of the US Marine Corps was taken 77 years ago today.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about several of the men there that day. Colonel Dave Severance<\/a>‘s passing last year saw me detail the sequence of events about the flag raising. Then-Private First Class Jack Lucas<\/a> had just two days prior jumped on not one but two grenades (and survived), and Private First Class James La Belle<\/a> was fighting his way across the island. Both would earn the Medal of Honor, La Belle posthumously.<\/p>\n

The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. Beginning on 19 February 1945, the battle ran for just more than a month. It involved more than 110,000 men and hundreds of ships on the Allied side faced off against about 21,000 well-entrenched Imperial Japanese. More than 6,800 Americans would die, as would roughly 18,000 Japanese. Only 217 Japanese were captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In what became perhaps the most famous American photo of all time, an iconic image of the US Marine Corps was taken 77 years ago today. I’ve written about several of the men there that day. Colonel Dave Severance‘s passing last year saw me detail the sequence of events about the flag raising. Then-Private First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,331,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-marines","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-w30","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}