The first American flag raised and planted on Iwo Jima was too small to be seen easily from the nearby landing beaches, so a second, larger replacement flag with a longer and heavier flag pole was raised and planted by five Marines and a Navy corpsman resulting in the famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.
•
He was portrayed by actor David Hornsby in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers.
St. Louis | St. Louis Cardinals | Louis Armstrong | Louis Vuitton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Louis XIV of France | St. Louis County, Minnesota | Joe Louis | Louis IX of France | Louis Pasteur | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Saint Louis University | Washington University in St. Louis | Jacques-Louis David | Louis XIII of France | Louis XV of France | St. Louis Rams | Saint Louis | Louis XVI of France | Louis Agassiz | Louis the Pious | St. Louis Blues | Louis Andriessen | Spirit of St. Louis | Louis Comfort Tiffany | Louis | Louis XVIII of France | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | Louis B. Mayer |
On the occasion of Lowery's announcement of retirement, Louisiana State Representative Jeff R. Thompson of Bossier City introduced a unanimously-approved House resolution praising Lowery for his 30-year ministry at First Baptist Bossier.
•
Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker presented Lowery, who in youth had aspirations of flying, with United States Air Force command pilot wings which Walker, a retired Air Force colonel had once worn.
•
Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.
•
He won the position by a four-vote margin, 723 to 719, over Dr. Sid Young (died 1999), the pastor from 1988 to 1991 of the First Baptist Church of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish.
Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
•
Douglass was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Boulder City and served as a Junior Warden from 1955 to 1960.
•
He was initially charged with responsibility for sewers, sewage disposal and cantonments at Leon Springs, Texas (near San Antonio).
•
In 1933, Douglass was hired as a design engineer by the Denver office of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, he was assigned to the civil engineering office.
Diagnosed with liver cancer, he died in Lexington, Virginia at the age of 87 and was survived by his wife, Sadie, two sons, Louis and Benjamin, and a grandchild.
He earned his high school general equivalency diploma during his tour there.
Jacobs spent his later years working hard to prove that he was the Marine radio operator photographed by Louis R. Lowery, (a photographer with Leatherneck magazine), standing beneath the first American flag raised by Marines on Mount Suribachi.
Robert G. Lowery (born 1940), American politician from Florissant, Missouri
Either as tribute or by happenstance, his name is shown prominently in a scene of the first movie The Godfather, printed in bold red letters on a hospital fire safety box in the scene where Michael Corleone protects his father, Vito Corleone, against would-be assassins in the absence of his bodyguards.
The woodwork and mouldings in the home, attributed respectively to Matthew P. Lowery, the most famous Federal craftsman of the time, and John Rogers, the most famous foreign architect in Kentucky, are also a testament to the costliness of the house.
Other Academy Awards nominations were for Best Cinematography (Leon Shamroy), Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler and set decorator Gene Callahan), Best Costume Design (Donald Brooks), and Best Film Editing (Louis R. Loeffler).