The Battle of Iwo Jima raged on from Feb. 19, 1945, to March 16, 1945, leaving thousands dead and even more wounded. Yet one ...

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal caught the moment, and the photo became a poster (and later a stamp, and a massive bronze sculpture). The poster was the crucial marketing image of the ...

Joe Rosenthal was born on October 9, 1911, in Washington D.C. and took up photography as a hobby during the Great Depression. After a spell as an office boy, he went to San Francisco to work as a ...

The famous photo of US marines hoisting the flag after the Battle of Iwo Jima has been erased from the Pentagon website - ...