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Iwo Jima Wreath Laying

On June 27, 1995, during the National Press Photographers Association's 50th Anniversary convention in Washington, DC, photographer Joe Rosenthal (center) placed a wreath honoring all photographers killed in combat at the base of the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, a statue in Arlington, VA, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of World War II soldiers raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Rosenthal was accompanied by Marine Corps Commandant General Carl E. Mundy, Jr. (right) and photojournalist Joe Traver, whose term as NPPA's president was just ending.

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On June 27, 1995, during the National Press Photographers Association's 50th Anniversary convention in Washington, DC, photographer Joe Rosenthal (center) placed a wreath honoring all photographers killed in combat at the base of the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, a statue in Arlington, VA, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of World War II soldiers raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Rosenthal was accompanied by Marine Corps Commandant General Carl E. Mundy, Jr. (right) and photojournalist Joe Traver, whose term as NPPA's president was just ending.