By Carol Memmott,

A stiff wind was blowing off the Pacific when six American boys -- the youngest was 19 -- used their combined muscle to plant a 96-by-56-inch flag in a heap of rocks on an ugly, stinking island 650 miles from Tokyo. As a distracted Associated Press photographer swung his camera toward the flag-raising, he pressed his finger down on the shutter, unintentionally capturing a millisecond of history.
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