Joe Rosenthal took it on February twenty-third, nineteen forty-five, on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

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Despite his experience, Marty returned to the island of Iwo Jima 25 years later after the battle.

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Felix de Weldon's 1954 bronze depicts five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi as Allied forces struggled to capture the Japanese-held island.

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