On this day in history....

The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marines took Mount Suribachi and raised the American Flag

while the battle for control of Japanese-held Iwo Jima raged on. The moment was captured in a Pulitzer Prize winning photo by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.

Here are some links that honor this event:

My favorite:

http://www.defense.gov/home/features/iwo_jima/index.html

Some other nice links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/23/newsid_3564000/3564547.stm

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwmp/usmc.htm

http://www.iwo-jima.navy.mil/default.aspx

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_iwo_jima.htm

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/LUTZ/iwo.html