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The original 1945 photograph A portion of the color film shot of the second flag-raising on Mount Suribachi by Sgt. Bill Genaust, USMC, excerpted from the 1945 film To the Shores of Iwo Jima The six Marine flag-raisers depicted on the memorial: #1, Cpl. Harlon Block (KIA) #2, Pfc. Harold Keller #3, Pfc. Franklin Sousley (KIA) #4, Sgt. Michael ...
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki) is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.
The monument was sculpted by Felix de Weldon from the image of the second flag raising on Mount Suribachi. Ira Hayes is depicted as the sixth bronze figure from the base of the flagstaff on the memorial with the 32 foot (9.8 M) bronze figures of the other five flag-raisers depicted on the memorial.
The monument, which was created by the Turkish sculptor Tankut Öktem (1941–2007) in 1997, [2] is a sculpture of a Turkish soldier carrying an Australian officer. The sculpture is based on an event in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I in which an Ottoman soldier, after raising a white flag, carried a wounded Australian officer to Australian lines and returned to his lines before fighting ...
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US, and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
File:Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima - NARA - 520748.tif This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: removed artifacts primarily in sky area, adjusted exposure slightly .
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Providence), Rhode Island, 1871 [49] Woonsocket Civil War Monument, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1868; The Union Soldier, Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island (1898). This statue is a replica of an original located at Gettysburg. Cast by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. [50]
Dedicated in 1897 by Civil War veterans who paid for the monument through their pay and by donation. The names of 2,230 officers and soldiers of the Regular Army are inscribed on the monument. The column was designed by Stanford White, while the statue atop the column was sculpted by Frederick MacMonnie [2] Buckner Memorial 1946