Mount Suribachi
While operating in the transport area 23 February, she received the following message at 10:35: “American flag now flying on Mount Suribachi Yama.” Three Marines from Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, had raised the national colors from the summit of Mount Suribachi at 10:20. That flag, the first of two which flew from Mount Suribachi that day, the second flag was a larger replacement flag, had come from "Missoula". The 2nd Battalion adjutant, whose job it was to carry the flag, had brought the small set of colors from the attack transport during the invasion.