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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.6 × 16.7 cm (7 5/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.9 × 18.2 cm (9 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.357


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper right stamped in red ink inverted: JUN 1 1945; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: 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 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. 4 SHOWS THE JOB / COMPLETED, AND THE FLAG BILLOWS IN THE / BREEZE. THE MOMENT OF THE GREAT PICTURE / IS OVER, AND THE MEN, WHOSE STRAINING AND / PULLING BODIES MADE THE PICTURE SO GOOD, / RELAX. SEE PHOTOS NO. 760292 (1), (2), / AND (3). / CREDIT (ACME) 5/21/45


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