Apr 27
Alan Wood Dead: Calif. World War II Veteran Who Provided Iwo Jima Flag Dies At The Age Of 90
Posted in: Today's ChiliA World War II veteran who has been credited with supplying the American flag raised at Iwo Jima has died.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Alan Wood, who was a 20-something Navy officer during the war, died at his Sierra Madre, Calif., home on April 18. He was 90.
On Feb. 23, 1945, as the bloody Battle of Iwo Jiwa raged on, a group of soldiers raised the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi. Joe Rosenthal, then an Associated Press photographer, captured the flag-raising on camera — immortalizing the moment in what would become one of the war’s most iconic images. The photograph, entitled “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” would clinch Rosenthal the Pulitzer Prize:
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