- GLC#
- GLC06361
- Type
- Images
- Date
- February 23, 1945
- Author/Creator
- Lowery, Louis, 1916-1987
- Title
- First flag raising on Iwo Jima
- Place Written
- Iwo Jima, Japan
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
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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