- from our story 'Combat: Iconic Images of World War 2'

World War II, Iwo Jima, US Army, Stars and Stripes, war, combat, 1945

United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945. This photograph won the Pulitzer Prize.

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