With the U.S. fleet off Iwo Jima in the background, Joe Rosenthal strikes a pose on the summit of Mount Suribachi

Joe 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 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x2000, 1126 KB) Joe Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) More information about Joe Rosenthal can be found on US Marine Corp website. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x2000, 1126 KB) Joe Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) More information about Joe Rosenthal can be found on US Marine Corp website. ... Landsat photo of Iwo Jima, circa 2006 Iwo Jima   (Japanese 硫黄島 Iōtō, or Iōjima, meaning sulfur island) is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (the southern part of the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 nautical miles (1200 km) south of Tokyo (24°472N, 141... Iwo Jima (Japanese 硫黄島 Iōjima, meaning sulfur island) is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (also known as the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 miles (1046 km) south of Tokyo (24. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. ... Combatants United States Empire of Japan Commanders Holland Smith Tadamichi Kuribayashi â€  Strength 250,000 22,000 Casualties 4,197 killed in action,[1] 19,189 wounded,[1] 1,401 died of wounds,[1] 494 missing[1] 20,703 killed,[1] 216 captured[1] The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought...

Early life

Rosenthal was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, but Rosenthal converted to Catholicism. His interest in photography started as a hobby in San Francisco, California, during the Great Depression, where he lived with a brother while looking for work. He became a reporter-photographer for the San Francisco News in 1932. Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D... As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or... Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City; The City; Baghdad by the Bay Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... The Great Depression was a time of economic downturn, which started after the Stock Market Crash on October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday. ... The San Francisco Call was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. ...

Rejected by the army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the Associated Press (AP) and followed the Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war as some kind of "embedded journalist" avant la lettre. The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ... A map of the Pacific Theatre. ...

The flag-raising photo

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal / Associated Press

Main article: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

On Friday, February 23, 1945 at around 1:00 PM, four days after the Marines landed at Iwo Jima, Rosenthal was making his daily visit to the island on a Marine landing craft when he heard that a flag was being raised atop Mount Suribachi, a volcano at the southern tip of the island. Upon landing, Rosenthal hurried toward Suribachi, lugging along his bulky Speed Graphic camera, the standard for press photographers at the time. When he got about halfway up, he was told that a flag had already been raised on the summit. He continued up anyway to photograph the flag flying. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1380x1111, 200 KB) This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1380x1111, 200 KB) This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. ... Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Produced by Graflex in Rochester, the Speed Graphic is commonly called the most famous press camera. ...

On the summit, Rosenthal discovered a group of Marines attaching a larger flag to a length of pipe. Nearby, another group of Marines stood ready to lower the smaller flag at the same instant the larger was raised. Rosenthal briefly contemplated attempting to photograph both flags, but decided against it, so he focused his attention on the group of Marines preparing to raise the second flag.

Rosenthal piled stones and a sandbag so he had something on which to stand, as he was only 5 feet and 5 inches (1.65 m) tall. He set his camera for a lens setting between f/8 and f/11 and put the speed at 1/400th second. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the group of Marines start to raise the second flag. He swung his camera around toward the action and pushed the shutter. To make sure he had a worthwhile photo to send to the AP, he took another photograph showing four Marines steadying the flag, then he gathered all the Marines on the summit for a posed shot under the flag.

Impact of flag raising photo

The American people saw Rosenthal's photo as a potent victory symbol.^[1]. Wire services flashed the iconic Pulitzer Prize winning photograph around the world in time to appear in the Sunday newspapers on February 25, 1945. Many magazines ran the photo on their covers. Artists later used the photo as a model for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, commonly referred to as "The Iwo Jima Memorial", at Arlington, and the U.S. Postal Service put the photo on a US postage stamp. A version also stands on the parade ground at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Marine Corps War Memorial is a military memorial statue located near the Arlington National Cemetery in Rosslyn, Virginia, United States. ... This article or section should be merged with Marine Corps War Memorial The USMC War Memorial (often called the Iwo Jima memorial), a statue depicting the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, is on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is an 8,095 acre (32. ...

Reporters extensively interviewed Rosenthal after September 11, 2001, when Thomas E. Franklin shot a similar iconic photograph, Ground Zero Spirit, depicting the raising of the flag by three firefighters at the World Trade Center. Rosenthal and Franklin met several times after the event. September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Heroes stamp using the Thomas E. Franklin photo Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) is a photographer for the Bergen Record who photographed the iconic Ground Zero Spirit photo depicting firefighters raising the flag at the World Trade Center. ... Heroes stamp using the Thomas E. Franklin photo Raising the Flag at Ground Zero refers to the famous flag raising photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of the Bergen Record on September 11, 2001. ... “WTC” redirects here. ...

Life after World War II

Rosenthal left the AP later in 1945 and became the chief photographer and manager of Times Wide World Photos.

He then later joined the San Francisco Chronicle. He worked there as a photographer for 35 years, before retiring in 1981. Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ...

On April 13, 1996, Rosenthal was named an honorary Marine by then Commandant of the Marine Corps General Charles C. Krulak. The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. ... General Charles Chandler Krulak (born March 4, 1942) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999. ...

On August 20, 2006, at age 94, Rosenthal died of natural causes in his sleep at a center for assisted living in Novato, a suburb of San Francisco.^[2]. On September 15, 2006, he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal by the United States Marine Corps^[3]. Novato is a city located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, in northern Marin County. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ...

Hollywood version of flag raising

In the 1949 film Sands of Iwo Jima John Wayne can be seen handing the flag to the three surviving members (John Bradley, Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon) of Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the second flag raising. The producers of Sands of Iwo Jima spliced Marine Staff Sgt. Bill Genaust’s color film footage of the actual flagraising into the movie^{[citation needed]}. Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film which follows a group of Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. ... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison (ref. ... John Jack Doc Bradley (July 10, 1923 – January 11, 1994) was a US Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was a Akimel O’odham, or Pima Indian, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. ... Rene Arthur Gagnon (March 7, 1925 – October 12, 1979) was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthals famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Landsat photo of Iwo Jima, circa 2006 Iwo Jima   (Japanese 硫黄島 Iōtō, or Iōjima, meaning sulfur island) is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (the southern part of the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 nautical miles (1200 km) south of Tokyo (24°472N, 141...

The 2006 Hollywood film titled Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, portrays the life stories of John Bradley, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and Franklin Sousley, the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima. The film also depicts Rosenthal's involvement in the events that led up to his taking the iconic flag raising photograph. Rosenthal was protrayed by actor Ned Eisenberg in the film. The film is based on the best-selling book of the same title. Flags of Our Fathers is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... John Jack Doc Bradley (July 10, 1923 – January 11, 1994) was a US Navy corpsman during World War II, and one of the six men who took part in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was a Akimel O’odham, or Pima Indian, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. ... Rene Arthur Gagnon (March 7, 1925 – October 12, 1979) was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthals famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Harlon Block (November 6, 1924 - March 1, 1945) was a marine during World War II. He was photographed in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima. ... Sergeant Michael Strank (in Rusyn: Mykhal Strenk; in Slovak: Michal Strenk) (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a U.S. Marine during World War II. He was photographed in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima. ... Franklin Runyan Sousley (September 19, 1925-March 21, 1945) was one of the six men in the famous photograph of Marines Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ... Ned Eisenberg (born January 13, 1957 in New York City) is an American actor probably best known for his recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as defense attorney Roger Kressler. ... Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is the New York Times-bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman (Medic) who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthals lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima...

References

1. ^ Ó'Riain, Seán. "An Irishman's Diary", The Irish Times, 2006-09-01.
2. ^ Joe Rosenthal 1911-2006 (2006-08-21).
3. ^ Marine Corps awards Joe Rosenthal Distinguished Public Service Medal (2006-09-20).

• Mark Edward Harris. "Joe Rosenthal: The Road to Glory". In: Camera & Darkroom (ed.), Volume 16 Number 6 (June 1994). Beverly Hills, CA. pp. 40-49.
• Hal Buell. Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America (May 2006). New York, NY.

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External links

• Flag Raising Photo Not Posed
• History of the Flag-Raising on Iwo Jima
• 3-D Stereo Photograph of Iwo Jima Flag-raising - From The Tampa Tribune and TBO.com
• This is America-Iwo Jima statue
• 1-400th of a second shot -- story highlighted in numbers
• Joe Rosenthal: 1911-2006