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Historic Iwo Jima footage shows individual Marines amid the larger battle

  • Written by Greg Wilsbacher, Curator of Newsfilm and Military Collections, University of South Carolina
Two Marines in the Marine Corps' 5th Division cemetery on Iwo Jima pay their respects to a fallen comrade.United States Marine Corps Film Repository, USMC 101863 (16mm film frame)

When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the...

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