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Detailed explanation-1: -Perhaps no Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph is better known than Joe Rosenthal ’s picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima . It was taken on Friday, Feb. 23, 1945, five days after the Marines landed on the island.

Detailed explanation-2: -Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: , Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. ‘The Flag of Stars and Stripes on Iō Tō’) is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.

Detailed explanation-3: -On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi.

Detailed explanation-4: -This photograph shows the Marines of the 5th Division advancing up a slope during the 1945 battle of Iwo Jima. Marines planted and raised a flag to mark their capture of the peak, to the delight of American witnesses, but a Japanese grenade attack interrupted them when the enemy heard the Americans cheer for the flag.

Detailed explanation-5: -On Feb. 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima (opens in new tab) (Feb. 19 to March 26), six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi. The scene was photographed by journalist Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press and his image soon became famous around the world.