John, A nice article today quoted him as saying it was spontaneous, "...just swung the camera over in time to catch the shot." And citing the confusion about it as being spontaneous or staged as partly his fault. He didn't see the film he took until some two weeks later and thought people were refering to a later photo of grinning Marines. The obituary pointed out that the movie camera man he was standing next to had the exact same shot on motion picture film. (He was killed a few days later.)
...Second US flag raised on Mt. Surabatchi that day (at least). The US commander thought the first flag was not big enough to be seen by those fighting below. This was one of the latest and most deadly encounters in the Pacific campaign. We lost 6,000+ Marines and the Japanese Defense Force lost 20,000+. Dark times. Regards, Bob S. On 8/21/06, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe Rosenthal, probably best-known for his photograph of > (a recreation of) US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima > died yesterday. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
