On the fourth day of battle, Marines fought to the top of Mount Suribachi, the tallest mountain on Iwo Jima.
VOA: special.2011.05.30
Soon after the photograph from Mount Suribachi was published, some people began to dispute it.
VOA: special.2010.05.31
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.
That sculpture, designed by Felix de Weldon, was patterned after a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press image of the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising by Marines and a Navy Corpsman on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.
Suribachi, and who became the anonymous subjects of the most famous photograph of the war, three survived the battle to be called home and paraded around the country as salesmen-heroes in a national War Bond tour.