Joe Rosenthal passes on

[WarEaglemtn]

Photog who shot Iwo Jima flag-raising dies
Joe Rosenthal won Pulitzer for iconic war image

Monday, August 21, 2006; Posted: 4:06 a.m. EDT (08:06 GMT)

Rosenthal's historic photo: Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945.
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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 was 94.

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[bart Nadeau]

A deeper article appeared in this moring's Chronicle -his paper.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/21/MNGEJKM9VH1.DTL
The photo was shot at 1/400 at noon.

Bart

 

[kwmullet]

Google News list of stories.
US Library of Congress record of the Iwo Jima photo.

 

[photomc]

And so goes another....RIP, thoughts go out to his family

 

[Curt]

My dad was there on Iwo Jima. The photo was one of the most symbolic images in history during one of the most deadly combat missions in WWII. Every time I see it or the the monument in Washington DC which is so powerful, I can't help thinking of Ira Hayes and the other men.

 

[Steve Roberts]

On my visit to DC from England, the monument was one of the places I wouldn't have missed, having been introduced to the scene on a US postage stamp at a very young age and seen it reproduced many times thereafter. If only we could all leave behind us images that powerful.

Steve