70th anniversary of famous Iwo Jima photo

Rosenthal covered the entire Marines offensive on Japanese island of Iwo Jima.

U.S. Fourth Division Marines move in from the beach on Iwo Jima, on Feb. 19, 1945.

U.S. Marines of the Fourth Division shield themselves in abandoned Japanese trench and bomb craters formed during U.S. invasion and amphibious landing at Iwo Jima.

U.S. Corpsmen carry a wounded Marine on a stretcher to an evacuation boat on the beach at Iwo Jima while other Marines huddle in a foxhole during invasion of the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold on Feb. 25, 1945.

U.S. Marines wounded at the beach of Iwo Jima are evacuated on pontoon barges by hospital corpsmen on Feb. 27, 1945.

The booted feet of a dead Japanese soldier, foreground, protrude from beneath a mound of earth on Iwo Jima.

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raise the American flag after capturing the 550-foot Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945.

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, fifth division, cheer and hold up their rifles after raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

Memorial services are conducted at an Iwo Jima cemetery on Feb. 20, 1947. Four-engined military planes soar overhead and the U.S. flag is at half staff in honor of those who died in the 1945 invasion of the then Japanese held island. Mt. Suribachi is in the background.

A sculptor works on the Marine Corps War Memorial statue, which is based off Rosenthal's famous image, on Oct. 9, 1954.

Workers move parts of The Marine Corps War Memorial.

The Marine Corps War Memorial statue is seen in Arlington, Va.

Thomas E. Franklin's Sept. 11, 2001 image of Brooklyn firefighters George Johnson, Dan McWilliams and Billy Eisengrein raising a flag at the World Trade Center site has often been compared with Rosenthal's Iwo Jima photo.