Here’s the full obituary from The New York Times. (Free registration required.) The Times notes, “He had been rejected for military service because of abysmally poor eyesight, but in one-four-hundredths of a second — the shutter timing on his Speed Graphic camera — Joe Rosenthal took the most famous photograph of the Second World War.”
Side note: The Marine Corps Memorial near Arlington Cemetery, which replicates the flag-raising scene in Rosenthal’s photo, is by decree of John F. Kennedy one of the few places in America where the flag can be flown 24 hours a day.
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