Myths

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  The Marines thought they had won, but they were still on the look out for any lurking Japps in the night. As one Marine named Chick Robeson remembers, "As we lay in our fox hole trying to sleep, we could hear them blowing themselves up with grenades held to their stomach." Later, Jack Bradley, Franklin Sousley, and Rene Gagnon wrote letter back home to their loved ones talking about how they raised the flag on Iwo Jima and describing how bad the battle was.

New York Times newspaper describing U.S "victory"

Joe Rosenthal picture of the second raising of the flag gets published in New York Times newspaper on February 25, and he instantly becomes famous for his outstanding picture. The article talked about Iwo Jima and how it was the bloodiest battle of WWII took up almost the whole newspaper. But it started writing misleading stories and ideas about the battle. For example, in one of the articles it said, " the Jappanese were rolling grenades down the [cliff] to burst in the faces of advancing Marines." It said that the flag being raised marked the end of the battle, but it lasted for many more days. In my opinion, such exaggerations make the story better, thus making more of a profit. If i was a Marine, i would want the public to know the whole truth, not lies!