Basic introduction of American soldiers raising the national flag on Iwo Jima

This photo was taken on February 23, 1945 (the fifth day of the 36-day battle of Iwo Jima), reflecting the scene of the US Marine Corps planting the national flag on the top of the main peak after it captured Iwo Jima. Photographer joe rosenthal is a photojournalist for the Associated Press. He landed on the island on February 23rd, ready to take some valuable news photos. On the same day, the 28th Division of the US Marine Corps (it should be the 28th Regiment of the 5th Division of the Marine Corps) just captured Buzhe Mountain and held a flag-raising ceremony at the top of the mountain at 10: 20 in the morning. Joe rosenthal heard the news. On the way, he met Staff Sergeant Louis Sulai, a reporter from Marine Corps magazine who had just come down from the mountain. The latter proudly said that he photographed soldiers raising the national flag on the top of the mountain, which made Rosenthal somewhat disappointed, but he decided to continue to go up the mountain to have a look. When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw six marines taking down an old flag from the flagpole in order to put on a new one. Realizing the opportunity came, he piled some stones together, stood up, chose the right angle, and pressed the shutter when the soldier inserted the flagpole. When taking pictures, he also said loudly to the soldiers: "Come on, this is historic." . This photo was published in Life magazine nine days later and caused a sensation, even a controversy, because some people thought that his photo was the result of posing. After the misunderstanding was clarified, joe rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism, the highest photojournalism award in the United States that year.

Because this photo truly reflects the heroic image of American soldiers who fought bloody battles during World War II, the US federal government not only gave it as a gift to the fallen soldiers during the war, but also made a statue based on the photo after the war and placed it in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington for future generations to mourn.

Of the six people in the photo, three were killed soon, and the other three were later arranged to tour the United States, calling on the people to buy military tickets.