Marines Affix First Flag to Pipe for Raising on Mount Suribachi

Marines of 3rd Platoon of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, affixes flag to twenty-foot water pole found in crater of Mount Suribachi prior to raising the first flag over Iwo Jima. First Lieutenant Harold George Schrier (October 17, 1916 - June 3, 1971), Platoon Sergeant Ernest Ivy ("Boots") Thomas, Jr. (March 10, 1924 — March 3, 1945), Henry Oliver ("Hank") Hansen (December 14, 1919 - March 1, 1945), and Corporal Charles W. Lindberg (June 26, 1920 - June 24, 2007) unfold the 54 x 28 inch flag, obtained from attack transport USS Missoula (APA-211), and raised at 1020 Hours.