1. Raymond E Jacobs was an American and United States Marine Corps sergeant who served in combat during World War II.
17 Facts About Raymond Jacobs
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Raymond Jacobs was born on January 24,1926, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Raymond Jacobs's family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1933.
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Raymond Jacobs was a football star at Polytechnic High School in the Los Angeles area.
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Raymond Jacobs was trained there to be a radioman in F Company.
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Raymond Jacobs took part in the Second Battalion, 28th Marines, amphibious assault landing on Green Beach at the southern part of Iwo Jima near Mount Suribachi on February 19,1945.
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On March 10,1945, Raymond Jacobs was wounded by enemy mortar fire and was evacuated off Iwo Jima.
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Raymond Jacobs was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 1946.
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Raymond Jacobs then went to work as a reporter, news anchor, news director, and editorial director for KTVU in Oakland, California for 34 years before retiring on July 1,1992.
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In 1950, Raymond Jacobs was called up for Marine Corps service during the Korean War.
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Raymond Jacobs served as a Marine instructor in California until he was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in August 1951.
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Raymond Jacobs said he was ordered back down Mount Suribachi sometime after the flag raising.
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Raymond Jacobs claimed that on February 23,1945, he was assigned as the radioman for Lt.
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In 2008, just after Raymond Jacobs had died, Annette Amerman, a historian with the Marine Corps History Division, said "there are many that believe" Raymond Jacobs was the radioman.
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In 2019, a Marine Corps investigation of the two flag raisings on Mount Suribachi confirmed that Raymond Jacobs was indeed Lt.
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Raymond Jacobs had disputed the official identifications in Lowery's picture and asserted that it should be: Pfc.
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Raymond Jacobs died of natural causes at a hospital in Redding, California, on January 29,2008, at the age of 82.