Hershel Williams signed "Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima" 11x14 Photo Inscribed "Medal of Honor" & "Iwo Jima" (PSA COA)

Photo measures 11" x 14" in size and has been hand-signed and inscribed in black felt-tip pen by Hershel Williams.

"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a United States Navy Corpsman raising a U.S. Flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and quite possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time. Three Marines depicted in the photograph, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley and Michael Strank were killed in action over the next few days. The three surviving flag-raisers were Marines Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and Navy Corpsman John Bradley. The latter three became celebrities after their identifications in the photograph.

The autographs include an official PSA/DNA hologram and matching COA for authenticity purposes.

Authentication: PSA COA

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