Joseph John Rosenthal, born on October 9, 1911 and died on August 20, 2006, was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and it was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia. The photograph is the work on which his reputation rests, and it connects his name to the public memory of the Pacific War.
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Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911, August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911, August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945, the photograph was published in Sunday newspapers two days later and reprinted in thousands of publications.
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