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Caption on back “Eugene J. Adams, ’39 (J.D. ’42), kneeling on far left, during a mass said by Charles F. Suvar, S.J., atop Mt. Suribachi after Battle of Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. The two marines wearing helmets are shielding the improvised later from the high winds raking the volcano summit
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