This is the only movie ever taken atop Mt. Suribachi 77 years ago today.
In color even.
The Marine who filmed this – Sgt William Homer Genaust – never got to see it.
He is still there on the northern end of the island after being KIA in a cave five days later. His body was never recovered.
Perhaps one day Sgt. Genaust will come home.
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