[Leica] Another famous photographer went

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

I think Greg hit it right on the head and B.D. missed the boat a bit in 
his earlier post. It's been so long since I did any marching all those 
stories are foggy. And hell, I never marched that damned good any way. 8-)

Walt.

GREG LORENZO wrote:

>>hoppyman@bigpond.net.au writes:
>>
>>Walt, regarding those particular fighting men, I seem to recall a
>>documentary saying that the famous photo was in fact a restaging of the
>>actual event, similar to Gen McArthur wading ashore more than once. I see 
>>no
>>cloned smoke clouds though! 
>>    
>>
>
>Hoppy,
>
>The famous photo is the second one made that day by Joe Rosenthal. The flag 
>used in the original photo was deemed to be too small so a second, larger 
>flag was obtained from an officer on a ship offshore for the 2nd iconic 
>image. In that sense it was 'staged' but this was done to enable both the 
>remaining Japanese and American marines fighting to secure the landing 
>strip and remainder of the island to see that the US had taken Mt. 
>Suribachi before they had in-fact 'secured it'. 
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
>
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