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Joe Rosenthal, 94, a World War II news photographer, famous for his photo of the marines raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, died August 20 in Novato, California. His famous photograph won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize, and later served as the inspiration for the Marine Corps Memorial located in Arlington, Virginia.

Read the entire obituary from Reuters.

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[skyring.livejournal.com]

94 is a pretty good innings. I should live so long!

A great photo, but accidental in the way it was taken - Joe almost missed the shot!

For my part, I was thrilled to bits to see the memorial in Rosslyn out of the window of our hotel last January, and even more thrilled that I was able to get a good photograph of it.