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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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