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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 image depicts the moment that six marines hoisted a large American flag on Iwo Jima’s highest point. It was actually the second American flag to be raised on Mount Suribachi that day. But, unlike the first, could be seen by all of the men fighting on the island.
February 23, 1945: During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi—the...
Joe Rosenthal missed the moment when United States Marines first raised the American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
On Feb. 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima (Feb. 19 to March 26), six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi. The scene was photographed by journalist Joe...
His Pulitzer Prize winning photo of six Marines raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi showed the Marines of World War II during their finest hour. There were two flag raisings at Iwo Jima which sparked controversy until recently in 2019.
It’s a photograph seared into most Americans’ memories and depicted in the life-sized Marine Corps War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: six battle-weary Marines, joined almost as one, hoist a U.S. flag over Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945, marking the capture of critically important territory in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima. When the first American flag went up on Mount Suribachi, the Japanese opened fire. The flag created a clear target for the soldiers who refused to cede Iwo Jima. As gunfire rained down on Mount Suribachi, Louis Lowery, a Marine photographer, dove for cover and broke his camera. And orders soon reached the Marines ...
Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi at the southern tip of the island of Iwo Jima, taken on February 23, 1945, is among the most recognized images from World War II.
Perhaps no Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph is better known than Joe Rosenthal’s picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It was taken on Friday, Feb. 23, 1945, five days after the Marines landed on the island.