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Japan Bombs Pear Harbor
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World War II
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American Soldiers raise the Flag at Iwo Jima
This famous photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal and shows 5 Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag at Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima , an island in the Pacific previously controlled by Japan -
End of World War II
Battle Deaths : 291,557
Non Mortal Woundings: 671,846 -
US Bombs Hiroshima
