Friday, November 21, 2008


Any guesses?? Well no rewards for guessing this one.Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a photograph which is both historic and momentous.Taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal,this shot depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

It became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.


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