Title from caption on object: "Marine Who Made Movie of Famous Iwo Jima Flag Raising Dies in Action"

February 23, 1945

William H. Genaust

Artist, American, 1906 - 1945

ACME Newspictures

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.3 × 21.6 cm (6 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 17.8 × 23.4 cm (7 × 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.354


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in grey paint; by unknown hand, top left in graphite perpendicular: 2; on verso, center left printed in black ink on applied sticker perpendicular: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: (U.S. WARS [crossed out] WWII- Iwo Jima); center left in graphite perpendicular: 5/23/45; center printed in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: MARINE WHO MADE MOVIE OF FAMOUS / IWO JIMA FLAG-RAISING DIES IN ACTION / THE COMBAT MARINE PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE / MOVIE CAMERA RECORDED THE FAMOUS FLAG- / RAISING ATOP MOUNT SURIBACHI WAS KILLED / IN ACTION ON IWO JIMA [circled in graphite] ON MARCH 4, MARINE / CORPS HEADQUARTERS HAS ANNOUNCED. HE IS / SGT. WILLIAM H. GENAUST, OF MINNEAPOLIS, / MINN. CLIPS FROM THIS FIGHTING CAMERAMAN'S / MOVIE SHOW THE SEQUENCE OF ACTION LEADING / UP TO THE THRUSTING OF THE FLAG STAFF INTO / THE ROCKY EARTH AS DEPICTED IN THE STILL / PICTURE WHICH ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER / JOE ROSENTHAL MADE WHILE STANDING BESIDE / GENAUST DURING THE EPIC CEREMONY. GENAUST / HAD BEEN WOUNDED ON SAIPAN LAST JULY. / WHILE RETURNING FROM A PHOTOGRAPHIC / MISSION, HE AND TWO OTHER MARINES KILLED / 10 JAPANESE AND LATER HELD OUT AGAINST / POWERFUL ENEMY FIRE FROM A CLIFFSIDE. / GENAUST WAS AWARDED THE BRONZE STAR FOR / HIS "OUTSTANDING COURAGE AND COOLNESS." / 760291 -- PHOTO NO. 1 SHOWS THE FIRST / STEP IN THRUSTING THE FLAG INTO THE EARTH. / THE MEN FIND A FOOTING FOR THE STAFF BASE / IN THE ROCKS. SEE PHOTOS NO. 760291 (2), / (3), AND (4).


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