AMAZING PHOTO

The iconic flag raising photo on Iwo Jima. February 23, 1945.

It depicts five United States Marines and a United States Navy corpsman raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

The flag raisers are from L to R: Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Michael Strank, Harold Schultz, Rene Gagnon, and Harlon Block