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70th Anniversary: The story behind the famous Iwo Jima photo (Video)

February 23, 2015, 2:06 PM

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Two Gastonia, N.C., men, Joseph Tedder, 90, and Mack Drake, 89, fought alongside more than 70,000 Marines, sailors and airmen on Iwo Jima, a tiny 8-square mile speck of volcanic rock and sand midway between Guam and Tokyo, during the closing months of World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
FILE – In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Two Gastonia, N.C., men, Joseph Tedder, 90, and Mack Drake, 89, fought alongside more than 70,000 Marines, sailors and airmen on Iwo Jima, a tiny 8-square mile speck of volcanic rock and sand midway between Guam and Tokyo, during the closing months of World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File
This black-and-white image provided by the National Archives shows a "still" taken from the 16 mm movie series of Marines raising the American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. (AP Photo/Files/William H. Genaust)
This black-and-white image provided by the National Archives shows a “still” taken from the 16 mm movie series of Marines raising the American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. (AP Photo/Files/William H. Genaust)
AP Photo/Files/William H. Genaust
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Two Gastonia, N.C., men, Joseph Tedder, 90, and Mack Drake, 89, fought alongside more than 70,000 Marines, sailors and airmen on Iwo Jima, a tiny 8-square mile speck of volcanic rock and sand midway between Guam and Tokyo, during the closing months of World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
This black-and-white image provided by the National Archives shows a "still" taken from the 16 mm movie series of Marines raising the American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. (AP Photo/Files/William H. Genaust)

WASHINGTON — This week marks the 70th anniversary of one of World War II’s bloodiest battles at Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean.

AP photographer Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo became one of the most enduring ever taken of war.

This is the story behind it.

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