There were a lot of unsung and under-appreciated heroes of the fighting on Iwo Jima, but Bill Genaust, a Marine Corps motion picture photographer attached to the V Amphibious Corps for the assault, was unique. It was Joe Rosenthal, a civilian photographer for Associated Press that captured the hearts of Americans with his photo of the second and most impactful flag-raising on Iwo—one of the most iconic images in history. But what few Americans know about the flag-raising is that the entire sequence was captured in 198 frames of Kodachrome motion picture film shot by Genaust, who was standing
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