Provenance

Leo Bauby, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top left in grease pencil: 1JIMA01; top right: B/W Editorial; on verso, center printed in purple ink on applied newspaper inverted: MARINE WHO MADE MOVIE OF FAMOUS / IWO JIMA FLAG-RAISING [circled in red crayon] DIES IN ACTION / [by unknown hand illegible note in red crayon] / THE COMBAT MARINE PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE / MOVIE CAMERA RECORDED THE FAMOUS FLAG- / RAISING ATOP MOUNT SURIBACHI WAS KILLED IN / ACTION ON IWO JIMA ON MARCH 4, MARINE CORPS / HEADQUARTERS HAS ANNOUNCED. HE IS SGT. / WILLIAM H. GENAUST, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. / CLIPS FROM THIS FIGHTING CAMERAMAN'S MOVIE, / ABOVE, 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." / 760292 -- PHOTO NO. 3 SHOWS THE FLAG / AT THE POINT AT WHICH ROSENTHAL TOOK HIS / MUCH-PUBLICIZED PICTURE. THE BREEZE BEGINS / TO CATCH THE FLAG AS THE STAFF MOUNTS INTO / THE AIR. SEE ACME PHOTOS NO. 760292 (1), / (2), AND (4). / CREDIT (ACME) 5/21/45 (MD); bottom center printed in black ink circled in red ink inverted: IWO JIMA