Tuesday, November 1, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
War souvenir
lewery tross, one of the U. S. Marines in the famous photograph of the American flagraising at two Jina during World War II, displays a Samurai sword that he won in the battle. He was among those killed by a Japanese attack.
By TRISH LEWIS Staff Writer
Famous photo features local man
A photograph of LeRoy Gross has been reproduced millions of times and has become a symbol of American heronism. Yet LeRoy Gross on the street would recognize him.
ALTROUGH THERE were two separate rafoughtness, Gross said that neither was still alive.
Both attempts to raise the American flag on Mount Sribachi occurred on Feb. 23, 1945. Only the second raising included Gross and received wide publicity.
The photo was reproduced on more than three million posters for war-loan drives, featured in countless magazines and newspapers and appeared on 15,000 outdoor panels. The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington and a commemorative stamp also were based on the photo.
Gross, a Lawrence resident, is one of six men featured in Joseph Rosenthal's 1945 Pulitzer-Prize-wining photograph of the flag-raising over Iwo Jima.
Considered by many to be the best photo of World War II, it is hard for many people, including the photographer, to believe that they photographed a picture because of its perfect composition.
In the original flag-raising, Goss was 200 yards away from the base of the mountain.
Gross was recommended as the most qualified gunner in his division and was ordered to protect the original flag-raisers as they climbed to the top.
JUST AS THE FLAG was halfway up, the men were hit by grenades and Japanese gunners.
"I started firing all three guns with high explosive shells for half an hour," he said. "They called back down and told me it was all clear."
"I was shooting right in front of them," Gross said. "I kept firing and when they got to the top 1 quit. They figured it was all secure up there, so they started putting up bullets." Gross added binoculars. They said that if anything happened, to commence firing." Gross said.
Gross was then asked to help two other men and the three survivors of the original six post a larger six-foot banner later the same day.
"I was scared on the way up," he said. "I was only ninety."
Gross entered the Marine Corps at the age of seventeen.
"We put up the flag, Rosenthal took the picture and that it was, he said. "I didn't see the flag," Rosenthal was holding up the flag; it was just a job. I even realize Rosenthal was taking a picture."
Response to senators low
Although no final report has been made, results from last week's meetings between Student Senate members and their constituents have been disappointing, according to Dan Terrill, who organized the visits.
Some Senate members still are making visits this week to the schools and living groups they represent, Terrill said last fall, but student response so far has been low.
Terrill, who estimated that 70 percent of the Senate members participated in the petition process, said.
ticipation might have been due to the timing of the visits.
A recent Senate survey indicated that 93 per cent of the students wanted Senate members to spend more time communicating with them.
TERRILL SAID MORE students might have participated if the visits had occurred immediately after elections or during a time when there was a controversial issue.
Terrill said that the Senate already had planned the visits but the survey reinforced
"I still think it should be an annual or binannual occurrence," he said.
Emergency center almost ready
Communications during emergencies in a few months will be coordinated by Douglas County's new Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
BRANN SAID MONDAY that the system was intended to be "the focal point for all effort and management of local affairs during a crisis situation."
city in the Law Enforcement Center. However, the system was not intended to be used only when all other systems were inoperative, Brann said.
The EOC is a radio system and planning center that occupies about 5,000 square feet of space in the basement of the Douglas Center, New Hampshire streets. Center, 11th and New Hampshire streets.
The system, which is not completed yet, will concentrate all emergency recovery planning by local government leaders in one location. It also helps County emergency preparedness director,
He said the system would be used if the needs created by natural or man-made disasters overloaded the normal emergency communications systems operated by the
He said the EOC would serve a double purpose as a communications backup for the Law Enforcement Center and as the point of contact for the EOC could be connected to the Law Enforcement Center's communications system, he said.
He said the existing communications systems were not equipped to handle all communications during tornaodes, floods or severe accidents. In such cases, Brann said, the EOC would be the center of all efforts to solve the crisis while the Law Enforcement team handled all regular dispatches for the police and fire departments and ambulances.
Bram said the EOC would not replace the existing system because it was to be "purely and simply a supplementary and complementary kind of system."
BRANN SAID that $230,000 would be spent on the EOC by the time it was completed. Half of that is being paid by Douglas County and the other half will come from a federal grant approved by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency in 1975.
The system includes a 180-foot tower in the parking lot of the Douglas County Judicial and Law enforcement Center. The system is now used for the radios now being installed in the EOC
The county already has received more than $100,000 from the grant, and the EOC now has limited capabilities to receive and out pass warning information, Brann said.
Downtown plan on agenda
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Gross is currently employed by the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation in Japan.
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Gross said he thought the military today was important and should have a larger role in the war.
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"The military now is underpowered and "understaffed," he said. "A strong military is important for our own protection. If you are in military readiness, you'll be in trouble."
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