On Friday, February 23, 1945 at around 1: 00 PM, five days after the Marines landed at Iwo Jima, Rosenthal was making his daily visit to the island on a Marine landing craft when he heard that a flag was being raised atop Mount Suribachi, a volcano at the southern tip of the island.

Upon landing, Rosenthal hurried toward Suribachi, lugging along his bulky Speed Graphic camera, the standard for press photographers at the time.

He was instructed by an officer to hoist a larger flag on top of Mount Suribachi so that it could be seen at great distance.

He saw combat on Iwo Jima and was, at one part in the epic battle, Executive Officer of the battalion in the 28th Regiment which raised the flag on Mount Suribachi.

P-51Ds of the 21st Fighter Group at North Field ( Iwo Jima ) | North Field, Iwo Jima 1845, Note Mount Suribachi in the background.

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In addition, the Imperial Japanese Army constructed four airfields: Kashiwabara Airfield in the northeast with Ki-43 Oscars, Kakumabestu Airfield on the southwest coast with a runway and Ki-44 Tojos, Kitanodai Airfield on the northeast coast with a runway, and Suribachi Airfield, an auxiliary base in the center of the south coast with two runways.

There was also a Japanese air early warning radar of unspecified type on the southern cape of Paramushiro, Kurabu Zaki, but its view of Shumushu was likely blocked by the 5958-foot volcano ( apparently named Suribachi, like the one on Iwo Jima ) in the center of Paramushiro.

Suribachi in the south, the Japanese still held a strong position throughout the island.

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

** Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

Named after a Japanese grinding bowl, the summit of Mount Suribachi is the highest point on the island.

File: Iwo-Jima-Suribachi. jpg | View of Suribachi from a beach on the western side of the island.

Mount Suribachi is the dominant geographical feature of the island of Iwo Jima.

The island is dominated by Mount Suribachi, a dormant volcanic cone situated on the southern tip of the island.

Tactically, the top of Suribachi is one of the most important locations on the island.

Despite capturing Suribachi, the battle continued to rage for many days, and the island would not be declared " secure " until 31 days later, on March 26.

) According to Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima by Parker Bishop Albee, Jr. and Keller Cushing Freeman, when the word reached Iwo Jima, Sousley was on a dangerous part of the island, and his company commander, Captain Dave Severance, decided it was safer to leave him where he was than attempt an extrication under the conditions.

Suribachi ( small ) and surikogi ( medium ) with black sesame seeds

On February 19, 1945 ( D-day, Gagnon landed with the 28th Marines on " Green Beach 1 " on the southeast side closest to Mount Suribachi on the southern end of Iwo Jima.

After the fall of Mount Suribachi, he moved northward with his unit.

Bradley was already on the summit of Mount Suribachi with his platoon, when Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, PFC Ira Hayes, PFC Rene Gagnon and PFC Franklin Sousley, who had a larger flag on orders to place it so that it could be seen from great distance, asked him to lend them a hand in raising the flag attached to a heavy length of pipe.

Suribachi, Bradley observed a Marine infantryman fall wounded in an open area under a pounding barrage by mortars, interlaced with a merciless crossfire from Machine guns.

The first, Flags of Our Fathers, focused on the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi.

Stryker's squad fights in the battle for Iwo Jima, witnessing the iconic flag raising on Mount Suribachi.

( The flag used was the actual one raised on Mount Suribachi after the battle.

Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and John Bradley, the three survivors of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who raised the second flag on Mount Suribachi during the actual battle, appear briefly in the film just prior to the re-enactment.

The most prominent feature is Mount Suribachi on the southern tip, a vent that is thought to be dormant and is high.

Suribachi is the only obvious volcanic feature, as it is only the resurgent dome ( raised centre ) of a larger submerged volcanic caldera.

One of the first objectives after landing on the beachhead was the taking of Mount Suribachi.

Another smaller flag had been raised a few hours earlier by five other Marines who were the first to the top of Suribachi.

File: Iwo Jima Suribachi DN-SD-03-11845. JPEG | Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

File: Suribachi seen from the north end of the invasion_beach. jpg | Suribachi seen from the northern end of the invasion beach.

File: Volcano crater on the backside of Mount Suribachi. jpg | Volcano crater on Mount Suribachi.

In 2002, the half-hour ITV programme Airbase documented life at the airfield.

The United States Army began construction on an airfield on land north of Congaree to be an outlying base to the Columbia Army Airbase.

The al-Taji Airbase, located 15 mi ( 27. 4 km ) northwest of the Iraqi capital, had been hit at least three times by GBU-27 / Bs from F-117 Nighthawks, " digging up the rose garden ".

* Islamabad International Airport ( IATA code " ISB "), also known as Chaklala Airbase, an airport located in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

There is an air base run by Pakistan Air Force known as PAF Airbase Rahwali, located on Shara-e-Quaid in Cantt.

* Hatzor Airbase, an Israeli Air Force base located next to the kibbutz

The Swedish Air Force Museum ( in Swedish, Flygvapenmuseum ) is located at Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt, just outside of Linköping, Sweden.

It is located close to Col. Jesus A. Villamor Airbase, the national headquarters of the Philippine Air Force ( PAF ).