Lowery, Louis, 1916-1987 First flag raising on Iwo Jima
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06361 Author/Creator: Lowery, Louis, 1916-1987 Place Written: Iwo Jima, Japan Type: Photograph signed Date: 1945 February 23 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 25.2 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy
Titled and signed on the image by Lowery. Depicts the flag fully raised, the flag-pole held by four G.I.'s, with an armed marine keeping watch in the foreground. Written at Mt. Suribachi.
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