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“Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal landed with the U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, a Japanese island that became one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of World War II.

“On Feb. 23, 1945, the fifth day of fighting, Rosenthal heard the American flag was being raised on Mount Suribachi, the island’s high point. As he scaled the hillside, he discovered he was too late: The flag was already flying.

“But Rosenthal got a second chance. The Marines decided to put up a bigger flag that could be seen everywhere on the island. The 5-foot-5 [inch] photographer stood atop rocks and a sandbag to get a better view. When the flag went up, he snapped the shutter. ‘I could only hope that it turned out the way that I looked at it through the finder,’ he said.”

‘World Trade Center Attack,’ by Steve Ludlum for NYT, posted earlier: