But what turned Iwo Jima into legend was Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six American soldiers raising a flag on Mount Suribachi.

但是最终使硫磺岛战役成为传奇的，则是Joe Rosenthal拍摄的一张照片——六名美国士兵在硫磺岛折钵山山顶升起美国国旗。

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He said that his father, had participated in raising a flag on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945, but had not participated in a second flag-raising the same day, which became the famous photograph.

他说，1945年2月23日，他父亲在硫磺岛上参与过第一次升旗，但并未参与同一天的第二次升旗，而第二次才是那张著名的照片所呈现的场景。

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Felix de Weldon's 1954 bronze depicts five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi as Allied forces struggled to capture the Japanese-held island.

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That sculpture, designed by Felix de Weldon, was patterned after a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press image of the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising by Marines and a Navy Corpsman on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.

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It drew on the past - the marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima - and so became a reaffirmation of who Americans believed they were.

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