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Marines Plant Stars and Stripes Atop Mount Suribachi   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Joe Rosenthal  (1911–2006)  wikidata:Q352870
 
Joe Rosenthal
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Joseph John Rosenthal; Joe Rosenthal/Times World Wide Photos
Description American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 9 October 1911 Edit this at Wikidata 20 August 2006 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Washington, D.C. Novato
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creator QS:P170,Q352870
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Marines Plant Stars and Stripes Atop Mount Suribachi
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English: U. S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, Fifth Division, hoist an American flag atop Mt. Suribatchi, Iwo Jima volcano, after battling the Japanese to the top of the crater. Platoon Sgt. Earnest Ivy Thomas, aged 21 of Tallahassee, Fla. was the Marine who raised the flag, during the height of the Suribachi battle Friday. Thomas broke out the three-foot-long ensign while his company was under sniper fire. The small flag as supplanted soon by a larger one on a high staff which all members of the group helped to carry to Suribachi's 566-foot crest. Photo by Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal on assignment with the wartime still picture pool.
Date 23 February 1945
date QS:P571,+1945-02-23T00:00:00Z/11
Notes Associated Press Wirephoto radioed by Navy from Guam to San Francisco
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Source From https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UHZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o4IMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1024,6134586
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