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Who took the picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima?

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, an iconic photograph taken on February 23, 1945 by Joe Rosenthal, 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. The photograph was instantly popular, being reprinted in hundreds of publications. Later, 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 in history, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.

 


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