"Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" is a 1945 song by

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and His Texas Playboys. The song was Bob Wills' second number one on the Juke Box Folk charts, spending a single week at number one and a total of eleven weeks on the chart. The B-side of "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima", a song entitled, "You Don't Care What Happens To Me" peaked at number five on the same chart. Later in 1945,

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, peaked at number four on the Juke Box Folk Record chart with their version.

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