On the fourth day of battle, Marines fought to the top of Mount Suribachi, the tallest mountain on Iwo Jima.
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The BattleofIwoJima was so ferocious that afterward the Americans estimated they would lose a million men if they attempted to take the Japanese mainland.
Brown unveiled the restored version of the statue in 1995 on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York on the 50th anniversary of the BattleofIwoJima.