FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS IWO JIMA FILMING
Clint Eastwood, director of "Flags of Our Fathers", a movie based on the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, talks with a cast member on the set at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, on Aug. 8 2005. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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RICHFIELD, Minn., June 26 (UPI) -- Minnesotan Chuck Lindberg, the last survivor of the raising of the first U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died.
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