Joe Rosenthal

✶October 9, 1911

†August 20, 2006

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Joseph John Rosenthal 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 was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia.

American photographer (1911–2006)

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Biography from the article Joe Rosenthal on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.