Provenance

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

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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).