Joe Rosenthal: Raising the Flag over Iwo Jima

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Joe Rosenthal: Raising the Flag overIwo Jima
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844179.book-part-160

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Abstract

The United States Marine Corps launched its Marines from U.S. Navy ships to attack beaches and take islands and was instrumental in defeating the forces of Imperial Japan in the Pacific during World War II. Marine Corps formations fighting in the Pacific had reporters attached to capture images of the war. These images would show Americans back home the nature of the war. Often, the reporters, such as Joe Rosenthal for the Associated Press, found themselves in the worst of the action.

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