On 23 February 1945, Staff Sergeant Louis R. "Lou" Lowery accompanied a 40-man combat patrol from 2d Battalion, 28th Marines to the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
Lowery, a combat photographer, was sent along to capture an image of the raising of the American flag over the hotly-contested island of Iwo Jima.
Though Lowery's photograph would be largely eclipsed by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the second flag raising, Lowery used his camera to great effect in documenting the Marines on Iwo Jima.
These fascinating and illuminating images , the bulk of which went unpublished for decades, were recently digitized by the Archives Branch from a set of second generation negatives.
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