Iwo Jima flag raising
February 1945
American marines stormed an eight-square-mile volcanic rock halfway to Japan and fought for thirty-six days in black ash. On the fifth day six marines raised an American flag atop Mount Suribachi. Joe Rosenthal took the photograph in one three-hundredth of a second. It became one of the most reproduced images ever made.
In context
Also in 1945 (12 other events on record)
- Liberation of the camps · Europe · War
- Trinity test lights the New Mexico desert · North America · Science
- Hiroshima bombed · East Asia · War
- V-E Day · Europe · War
- Hitler kills himself in the bunker · Europe · War
- Nagasaki bombed · East Asia · War
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