What the battle is best known for, however, is an image captured by Associated Press photojournalist Joe Rosenthal— six soldiers, raising the American flag over ... well-known images of the ...

Film footage taken of the flag-raising in action proves the photo’s authenticity, though the original copy has been lost. Resch and the dozens of publications that received Rosenthal’s photos ...

when the image of Marines raising the flag was captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. Rosenthal won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for photography, and the photo is one of the most ...

Back in 1945, pictures were taken on film that needed to be developed in dark rooms and videos were recorded on 8 and 16 mm film. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the American flag raising ...