U.S. Marines - Iwo Jima 1oz .999 copper round

Description

"
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
" is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five
United States Marines
and
a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States
atop Mount Suribachi.
The photograph became an iconic image of the Allied
victory that was reprinted in thousands 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 of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.
Of the six men depicted in the picture, three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank) did
not
survive the battle; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon the publication of the photo.
The picture was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the
USMC
War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery
just outside Washington, D.C.
USMC
1972 - 1978 OOORAH!
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