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[World War II - Iwo Jima]. Rare photograph signed by the three survivors from the iconic flag raising on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, measuring 10.75 x 14 in.; 273 x 356 mm., the image, a color-embellished printed photograph taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Joe Rosenthal. Signed in ink on the image, "Ira H. Hayes pfc., U.S.M.C.," "John H. Bradley Ph. M II/c U.S. Navy," and "Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon U.S.M.C." Minor creasing near top with slight tearing on left and top margins; mounting remnants on verso. Very rare historic flag raising photograph signed by the only three soldiers in the image to have survived the Battle of Iwo Jima. On 23 February 1945, atop Mt. Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, six American soldiers - five Marines and one Navy corpsman - planted the American flag. Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press was awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Photography "for his photograph of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima." After President Franklin D. Roosevelt continued to see the AP photograph in newspapers across the country, he issued a Presidential Order: "Transfer immediately by air to Washington, D.C. the six men who appear in the Rosenthal photograph of flag raising at Mt. Suribachi." What he didn't know was that three of the soldiers had died at Iwo Jima: Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley. This iconic photograph, used as the model for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, is signed by Private First Class Ira H. Hayes (1923-1955), Pharmacist Mate 2nd Class John H. Bradley (1923-1994), and Private First Class Rene A. Gagnon (1925-1979), the only soldiers in this photograph to have survived the Battle of Iwo Jima.