Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] Another famous photographer went
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Aug 21 05:54:02 2006
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20060821110314.031e10a0@screengang.com>
 
Didier

Saying "U.S. troops"  is much the same as calling HCB's tools of choice 
small format cameras. Accurate, but almost a bit demeaning. The U.S. 
troops on Mt. Suribachi were Marines, a big difference. :-)

Walt

Didier Ludwig wrote:

> Joe Rosenthal, 1911-2006
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> He shot the iconic war image of US troops raising the flag at Iwo Jima 
> in 1945.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising.jpg
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