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Aug 21 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a
Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an
American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
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Flag-Raising on Mt. Suribachi
AP Wide World Photo by Joe Rosenthal
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- Iwo Jima was a larger island, a little less than 8 square miles, and
not flat like Betio. It rose to the height of a 550-foot hill we call
Mount Suribachi. And it was much closer to Japan, just 660 miles from Tokyo.
Feb. 19, 1945, and this time 3 Marine Divisions would be thrown
against the Japanese, and supported on the island by some Navy and Army units,
as well as the ships offshore.
From the Mar. 26, 1945 issue of TIME magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine
Last week the nation learned just how many Marine soldiers, carrying rifles and
grenades, had paid the price to take Iwo Jima: 4,189 dead, 441 missing, 15,308
wounded—total casualties of 19,938. This was as high as Tarawa and
Saipan combined, higher than the number of Union casualties in any of the
bloody battles of the Civil War except Gettysburg.
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From the Mar. 26, 1945 issue of TIME magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/
On D-plus-four, Sergeant Lowery, the only photographer present, scrambled to the
top of 546-ft. Suribachi, took 56 pictures of marines raising a 3-ft. American
flag under heavy fire. A Jap grenade landed at Lowery's feet; he ducked,
tumbled 50 feet down the side of the volcano, wrenched his side, smashed his
camera. For all his pains, his shot of Iwo's first flag raising was far
from dramatic. A few hours later, when firing was less severe but still
continuing, a second band of marines made their way to the top, planted
a larger flag in the same spot. This time A.P.'s Rosenthal was along, got his
great picture.
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| The fighting at Iwo Jima continued for 31 more days.
Three of the six flag-raisers were killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. Five
of the 11 men in the two flag-raisings never left Iwo Jima alive.
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President Franklin Roosevelt made the photograh
the theme for the Seventh War Bond Tour and ordered the War Department to
"Transfer immediately by air to Washington, D.C. the 6 men who appear in the
Rosenthal photograph of flag raising at Mt. Suribachi."
(just a note: President Roosevelt paid for WWII by selling Bonds to the US
public)
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The 7th Bond Tour raised $24 Billion (1945
Dollars) for the US Treasury, more than any other bond tour. To put this into
perspective, the total US Budget in 1946 was $56 Billion. This would be the
largest borrowing from the American public in history.
In two months everyone in America would see this picture over and over. You
couldn't avoid it.
It hung in: One million Retail Store windows; 16,000 Movie Theaters; 15,000
Banks; 200,000 Factories; 30,000 Railroad Stations;5,000 Large Billboards.
www.iwojima.com
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A stamp commemorating the Flag Raising picture was
issued just five months after the Flag-Raising. On the day of issue, people
stood patiently in lines stretching for city blocks on a sweltering July day in
1945 for a chance to buy the beloved stamp. For many years, this was the
biggest selling stamp in the history of the US Post Office. (Over 137 million
sold.)
www.iwojima.com
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Fifty Years Later, Iwo Jima Photographer Fights His Own Battle Fifty years ago
this month, a young Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal shot the
most memorable photograph of World War II, a simple, stirring image of five
Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Rosenthal is 83 now,
nearly blind, a pudgy man with a dapper white mustache and a horseshoe of white
hair curving around the back of a largely bald head. He lives alone in San
Francisco, near Golden Gate Park, in a little apartment largely given over to
stacks of correspondence and documentation related to Iwo Jima.
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For Joe Rosenthal, Iwo Jima brought fame but not fortune, acclaim but not
overwhelming success. He spent the rest of his career as a workaday
photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, shooting politicians and drug
dealers, fires and parades.
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For 50 years now, Rosenthal has battled a perception that he somehow
staged the flag-raising picture, or covered up the fact that it was actually
not the first flag-raising at Iwo Jima.
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pulitzer/rosenthal.html
By MITCHELL LANDSBERG, AP National Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
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Aug 21 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a
Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an
American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
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Just one more sentence from the same 1945 issue of TIME magazine...
Somewhere in the U.S. an American woman had written: "Please, for God's sake,
stop sending our finest youth to be murdered on places like Two Jima. It is too
much for boys to stand, too much for mothers and homes to take. It is driving
some mothers crazy. Why can't objectives be accomplished some other way? It is
most inhuman and awful—stop, stop!"
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