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U.S. Marines raise the American flag at Iwo Jima. Photo credit: National Archives February 23, 1945:
U.S. Marines raise the American flag at Iwo Jima. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's image of the event wins the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography and becomes the most memorable photograph of the Second World War.