Raising the Second Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a United States Navy corpsman raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Three Marines depicted in the photograph, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Michael Strank, were killed in action after the flag-raising. The three surviving flag-raisers were Marines Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes, and sailor John Bradley. The image was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the 1954 Marine Corps War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C.. Raising the Second Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a United States Navy corpsman raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Three Marines depicted in the photograph, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Michael Strank, were killed in action after the flag-raising. The three surviving flag-raisers were Marines Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes, and sailor John Bradley. The image was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the 1954 Marine Corps War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C.
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