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'''Joe Rosenthal''' (born [[October 9]], [[1911]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[photographer]], who received the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his iconic [[World War II]] portrait of American troops [[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|raising the flag]] on [[Mount Suribachi]] during the [[Battle of Iwo Jima]].

Rejected by the army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the [[Associated Press]] and followed the [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] in the [[Pacific Theater of Operations]] during the war. His picture of five marines and a navy corpsman raising the flag on Mount Suribachi ("[[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]]") became one of the best known photographs of the war. The photograph is copyright by the Associated Press.

After the war, Rosenthal worked as a photographer for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''.