Summer Auction 2019 Sale 76
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/30/2019
Original Associated Press 9" x 7" news photograph of the bodies of about eight dead Japanese soldiers scattered before an American GI, a shattered bunker in the background. Paper caption on verso credits famous Iwo Jima "Flag Raising" photographer Joe Rosenthal with the photograph. The caption also explains that the soldiers "...tried to stop American Marines moving on their pillbox. They were blown out..." The damage here was undoubtedly done by naval vessels visible in the background. Fine.