Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15

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Subject: [Leica] Rosenthal and Iwo: Some Source Material
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:17:56 -0400

Ben Frank, the retired Chief Historian of the Marine Corps, provided me
with citations to a couple of articles on the flag-raising at Iwo Jima:

>From: Ben Frank <ben.frank@tcs.wap.org>
>Subject: Re: Iwo Jima Photograph
>
>Marc, I have written several times about the two flag-raising pictures on
>Iwo. I wrote an article many years ago for "American History Illustrated,"
>I believe the name of the journal was, but don't recall the date. I also
>wrote a sidebar for "Closing In" Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima," by
>Col Joe Alexander, who wrote the monograph for the Marine Corps series of
>50th Anniversary of World War II Commemorative Monographs, of which I was
>the general editor. You can get a copy by contacting the Marine Corps
>Historical Center, Bldg 58, Washington Navy Yard, 901 M Street, SE,
>Washington, DC 20374 or by calling (202) 433-2484. That will be LtCol
>Craig, the ExO of the Center, and if you tell him I suggested you call, I'm
>sure he will help out. Cheers, BMF

There you have it!

Marc

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