Iwo Jima: The story behind Alan Wood and the famous flag on Mount Suribachi
By: World War II magazine   11 hours ago
The time and the place were prophetic. It was early 1945, and the place was Pearl Harbor, site of the surprise attack that plunged the United States into World War II.
The war’s final year was but a few days old, and the landing ship, tank LST-779 was in Pearl Harbor for extended training maneuvers in anticipation of landing on Iwo Jima. Lieutenant junior grade Alan Wood, of Sierra Madre, Calif., was serving as the LST’s communications officer at the time. “It was our first operation, and naturally we were a little excited,†he recalled. “We knew it would be pretty important because Iwo was so close to Japan.â€
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