15 of the Most Powerful and Rare Photos in U.S. History

Feb. 23, 1945 — Raising the American Flag on Iwo Jima

Taken on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, U.S. Marines and a United States Navy hospital corpsman, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi. These men fought alongside more than 70,000 Marines, sailors during the closing months of World War II.