Item no. PH3 (photo)

Photograph upon which based was the design of the following items: P750, S271, S281, S100, S159, S99, S109.

The photograph was taken on 23 February 1945 by Associated Press photojournalist Joe Rosenthal (1911 – 2006) of US marines raising US national flag atop Mount Suribachi of the Japanese island Iwo Jima.