William S. Wilson Iwo Jima photographs, 1945.

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William S. Wilson Iwo Jima photographs, 1945.

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William S. Wilson Iwo Jima Photograph collection consists of 48 5 x 7 black-and-white prints and 4 x 5 black-and-white negatives from the Battle of Iwo Jima. The photographs show the dead or injured U.S. soldiers; dead or captured Japanese soldiers; destroyed tanks, planes, and landing craft; and U.S. soldiers with guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers, tanks, artillery, and the U.S.S. Samaritan, US Navy hospital ship. Also included in this collection is a photograph of soldiers cheering around the second flag raised atop Mt. Surabachi, taken by Joe Rosenthal. The photographs are more carefully composed and executed than typical G.I. snapshots and were probably taken by Marine Corps or Associated Press photographers. There were at least four photographers (including Joe Rosenthal, Eugene Jones, Robert R. Campbell and Louis Lowry) at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7640232

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006

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Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006) was an employee of the Associated Press in 1945 when he took this photograph of U. S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. He won the Pulitzer prize for it that same year. Rosenthal later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, retiring in 1981. He made the photograph in this collection from his original negative in 1997 and gave it to fellow photojournalist David Hume Kennerly who donated it to the Briscoe Center. From the guide to the Joe Rosenthal Iwo Ji...

Wilson, William S. (William Skinner)

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Samaritan (Ship)

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United States. Marine Corps

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