During the Battle of Iwo Jima, he was a member of the patrol which captured the top of Mount Suribachi where he helped raise the first U.S. flag on the island on February 23, 1945.

Lindberg was born and lived in Grand Forks, North Dakota, when he enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after the Japanese Navy attack on Pearl Harbor.

On February 19, 1945, he landed with the fifth assault wave on the southeast beach of Iwo Jima closest to Mount Suribachi, which was the objective of the 28th Marine Regiment.

Robert Goode of E Company were members of the 40-man combat patrol which climbed up Mount Suribachi to seize and occupy the crest then raise the Second Battalion's American flag.

[3] On February 23, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Chandler W. Johnson, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, ordered a platoon-size patrol to climb up the 556-foot Mount Suribachi.

First Lieutenant Harold Schrier, E Company's executive officer, was handed the Second Battalion's American flag from Lt.

[4] Captain Dave Severance, E Company's commander, assembled the remainder of his Third Platoon and other members of the battalion including two Navy corpsmen and stretcher bearers.

Ward, and Third Platoon corpsman John Bradley helped make the flagstaff stay in a vertical position.

The men at, around, and holding the flagstaff which included Schrier's radioman Raymond Jacobs (assigned to patrol from F Company), were photographed several times by Staff Sgt.

Lindberg was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in January 1946, and returned home to Grand Forks, North Dakota.

He often spoke at schools, sharing some of his wartime memories of Iwo Jima and World War II with the children.

In November 2006, he attended his last reunion of Third Platoon, E Company, 28th Marines, which was held in Washington, D.C.[14] Lindberg died at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota, on June 24, 2007.

Lindberg's military decorations and awards include: Lindberg's Silver Star Medal citation reads:[16] For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as Flame Thrower Operator of Company E, Second Battalion, Twenty-eight Marines, Fifth Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, from 19 February to 1 March 1945.

Repeatedly exposing himself to hostile grenades and machine-gun fire in order that he might reach and neutralize enemy pill-boxes at the base of Mount Suribachi, Corporal Lindberg courageously approached within ten or fifteen yards of the emplacements before discharging his weapon, thereby assuring annihilation of the enemy and the successful completion of his platoon's mission.

As a member of the first combat patrol to scale Mount Suribachi, he courageously carried his flame thrower to the steep slopes and assisted in destroying the occupants of the many caves found in the rim of the volcano, some of which contained as many as seventy Japanese.

While engaged in an attack on hostile cave positions on March 1, he fearlessly exposed himself to accurate enemy fire and was subsequently wounded and evacuated.

By his determinations in manning his weapon, despite its weight and the extreme heat developed in operation, Corporal Lindberg greatly assisted in securing his company's position.

His courage and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.In the film Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Lindberg is played by Alessandro Mastrobuono.