Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima,Flag raising on Iwo Jima
Object: Six U.S. soldiers (1942) @ Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan
Photos taken by Joe Rosenthal was to restore morale and confidence of Americans who are tired of war. Three of the six soldiers were killed on Iwo Jima. While the rest is pulled from the battlefield and raise funds to stop the war. But, because the actions of people in these pictures are considered too 'heroic', so many people who doubted its authenticity. The journalists at that time to suspect that this picture made in Hollywood studios with the aim of propaganda. But until now it was never proven allegations

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