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The picture at Mt Suribachi was actually not the first raising of the flag. The original was pretty small so they took it down and got a bigger one from a landing ship then the photographer took a picture of that.

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Q: What happened to the original flag that was in that famous World War 2 Iwo Jima photo atop Mt Suribachi?
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