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 ...
U.S. soldiers raised the American flag on the summit ... one of the most well-known images of the war. The image was also featured on a war-bond poster, helping to raise $26 billion in 1945 ...
On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an ...
The photo won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for photography and has come to be regarded in the United States as one of the most recognizable images of World War II. Per most accounts, the flag raising ...