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Joe Rosenthal was the Associated Press photographer who took the Iwo Jima photo – now there’s a street named after him in San ...
In early 1945, the Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured an iconic shot of troops raising an American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. It became one of the most famous images ...
Joe Rosenthal is famous for his Pulitzer Prize ... But he didn’t take his celebrated photo until Iwo Jima, where U.S. Marines invaded on February 19, 1945. Some 22,000 Japanese soldiers died ...
Joe Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at age ... “Sure, I took the photo. But the Marines took Iwo Jima.” ...
An SFMTA worker installs the Joe Rosenthal Way street sign to honor Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima ...