On this day in 1945, one of the most reproduced and parodied photos in history was taken

U.S. Naval Institute ^ | February 23, 2018 | U.S. Naval institute

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Photographer Joe Rosenthal admitted that when he took a shot of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima’s Mt. Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, he had no idea that he had captured something extraordinary. He was setting up for a different shot when he spotted the group of men planting the flag and quickly took a snap without even looking through the viewfinder. The chance photo would become iconic overnight and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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You are right. Not sure what I was looking at. Read flag of our fathers a few years ago and shouldn’t have had to look it up. Thanks for the correction.