Raisin Flags....
“Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima” is an inspiring photo taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945.
The photograph depicts five U.S. marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima during World War 2.
The Pulitzer Prize winning photo is easily the most recognizable image of the war, and one of the most reproduced photographs ever.
Raising a flag over the Reichstag is a historic photograph taken on May 2, 1945, by Yevgeny Khaldei.
It depicts a number of Soviet Troops raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the German Reichstag building during the Battle of Berlin in World War II.
The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications.
It came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war.
The true identities of the men in the picture are shrouded in mystery along with the photographer (Khaldei), who was only identified after the Soviet Union fell.
The photograph represented a historic moment; the defeat of Germany in a war that had cost the Soviet Union tens of millions of lives.
Celebrated as the image is, it was the reconstruction of a moment that had happened earlier but had been missed by the camera.
