Joe Rosenthal

A different group of men are the first to raise a flag.

But it is restaged later for the benefit of a photographer, Joe Rosenthal.

He creates the image that will come to immortalize the Pacific War.

It's an unforgettable scene, but it's not the end of the battle.

But you'll never forget it is because it's a moment frozen in time.

listening to Joe Rosenthal at Eddie Adams Workshop describe climbing a hill and he was with Bill Ganoust, who was a Marine.

Are you aware of Bill Ganoust? He was a Marine combat photographer.

He was shooting 16mm film.

Three hours later, an even larger flag went up to more cheers.

Few would know that Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal had just captured the embodiment of the American warfighting spirit on film.

Leatherneck Magazine photographer Staff Sergeant Lou Lowry had taken a picture of the first flag raising and almost immediately got in a firefight with a couple of enraged Japanese.

His photograph would become a valued collector's item, but Rosenthal's would enthrall the free world.

The landing force sorely needed enhanced counter-battery fire against Kuribayashi's big guns to the north.

The Marines who raised the first flag were Lieutenant Schreier, Platoon Sergeant Ernest T. Thomas, Jr., Sergeant Henry O'Hanson, Corporal Charles W. Lindberg, and Privates First Class Louis C. Charlo and James Mitchells.

The six men immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the second flag raising were Sgt. Michael Strank, Pharmacist Mate 2C John H. Bradley, Corporal Harlan H.

Block, and Privates 1st Class Ira H. Hayes, Franklin R. Sousley, and Rene A. Gagnon.

So you can't tell us it's impossible because we've already done the impossible.

Joe Rosenthal is running for the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas.

And Karl Rove wrote a Wall Street Journal article saying that he is endorsing John Rosenthal.

John, good luck on the campaign trail.

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[bell ringing] This is Joe Rosenthal, f- former photographer in the Pacific for the Associated Press.

[music] On top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima is a monument to the men of the Corps who fought the Battle of Iwo Jima.

On this monument is engraved a quotation from Admiral Nimitz.

I'm Tamar Avishai.

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Episode 72: Joe Rosenthal's Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima from 1945.

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So what the firemen were doing did not immediately stand out to me.

I saw the symbolism of the flag and the similarity to Joe Rosenthal's photo from Iwo Jima.

But beyond that, you know, it didn't stand out from everything else I had photographed.

So at that moment in time, you really did not have a sense of the largeness of this picture.

They had helped with the first flag, but not with the famous second one.

And when they were raising the second one, Joe Rosenthal snapped the famous world famous photo.

And he didn't think it was any good because you couldn't see any of the faces of the guys as they raised the flag.

And that was always kind of a big thing with for magazine covers or for news coverage.

I was going to add something, but you go first.

Hang on, yeah.

So we got Joe Rosenthal's picture, but we've all seen the actual footage, the moving picture.

That's taken by Bill Janos, the color footage, which I think is more compelling in a way.

Three hours later, an even larger flag went up to more cheers.

Few would know that Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal had just captured the embodiment of the American warfighting spirit on film.

Leatherneck Magazine photographer Staff Sergeant Lou Lowry had taken a picture of the first flag raising and almost immediately got in a firefight with a couple of enraged Japanese.

His photograph would become a valued collector's item, but Rosenthal's would enthrall the free world.

Captain Thomas M.

Fields, commanding Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, heard his men yell, "'Look up there!' and turned in time to see the first flag go up." his first thought dealt with the battle still at hand thank god the japs won't be shooting us down from behind any more meanwhile the fourteenth marines rushed their echo and flash ranging equipment up to the summit the landing force sorely needed enhanced counter-battery fire against kiribayashi's big guns to the north The Marines who raised the first flag were Lieutenant Schreier, Platoon Sergeant Ernest T. Thomas, Jr., Sergeant Henry O. Hansen, Corporal Charles W. Lindberg, and Privates First Class Louis C. Charlo and James Mitchells.

The six men immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the second flag raising were Sgt. Michael Strank, Pharmacist Mate 2C John H. Bradley, Corporal Harlan H.

Block, and Privates 1st Class Ira H. Hayes, Franklin R. Sousley, and Rene A. Gagnon.