In 2003 Buckley in Colorado was the first Air Force base to fly the U.S. flag raised on this Pacific mountain in 1945
It depicts six United States Marines raising a U.S. flag atop 
Mount Suribachi, ... A U.S. flag was first raised atop Mount Suribachi soon after 
the mountaintop was ...... Jump up ^ Fischer, Heinz-D.; Fischer, Erika J.