U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. The iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo was taken five days after the ...

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal—AP ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He ...

Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal) ...

Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag raising photo in World War II, poses at the New Pisa Bar and restaurant in San Francisco, Dec. 20, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps acknowledged Thursday it had misidentified one of the six men in the iconic 1945 World War II photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The investigation solved one ...

FILE - This is a full frame scan of the 4x5 negative of Joe Rosenthal's iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo from Feb. 23, 1945 and seen Oct. 24, 2017 in the Associated Press Photo Library in New ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged on from Feb. 19, 1945, to March 16, ... Taken by Joe Rosenthal on Feb. 23, 1945, the photo features five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag.

Roughly 70,000 American soldiers fought to take Iwo Jima. More than 6,500 were killed. Of the 20,000 or so Japanese defending the island, about 19,000 were killed in combat.

A block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese ...