Post by corsair67 on Aug 24, 2006 10:52:58 GMT 12
I know this isn't aviation related, but thought it'd be of interest anyway.
Iwo Jima photographer dies
August 22, 2006.
SAN FRANCISCO: Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of six World War II fighting men raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died yesterday.
Rosenthal died of natural causes at a nursing home in San Francisco, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal. He was 94.
"He was a good and honest man. He had real integrity," Ms Rosenthal said.
His photo, taken on February 23, 1945, for Associated Press, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954, commemorates the Marines who died capturing the first piece of Japanese soil to fall during World War II.
The photograph actually shows the second raising of the flag that day on Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island 1200km south of Tokyo. Soldiers had decided the first flag to be raised was too small.
Almost 7000 Americans and 21,500 Japanese died in the battle, seen as the key to the Pacific war.
AP
The famous Flag Raising Photograph at Iwo Jima.
There are six Flag Raisers in the photo. Four in the front line and two in back.
The front four are (left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block.
The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind Bradley).
Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards.
Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes within weeks.
Iwo Jima photographer dies
August 22, 2006.
SAN FRANCISCO: Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of six World War II fighting men raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died yesterday.
Rosenthal died of natural causes at a nursing home in San Francisco, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal. He was 94.
"He was a good and honest man. He had real integrity," Ms Rosenthal said.
His photo, taken on February 23, 1945, for Associated Press, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954, commemorates the Marines who died capturing the first piece of Japanese soil to fall during World War II.
The photograph actually shows the second raising of the flag that day on Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island 1200km south of Tokyo. Soldiers had decided the first flag to be raised was too small.
Almost 7000 Americans and 21,500 Japanese died in the battle, seen as the key to the Pacific war.
AP
The famous Flag Raising Photograph at Iwo Jima.
There are six Flag Raisers in the photo. Four in the front line and two in back.
The front four are (left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block.
The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind Bradley).
Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards.
Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes within weeks.
