Bill Genaust with his movie camera circa 1945
by David Lee Guss
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Bill Genaust with his movie camera circa 1945
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"William Homer 'Bill' Genaust (October 12, 1906 - March 4, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action on Iwo Jima while serving as a war photographer in World War II. He is best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on February 23, during the battle of Iwo Jima, using a then modern and lightweight 16 millimeter motion picture camera which used 50-foot color film cassettes.His motion picture of the flag-raising became one of the best-known film clips of the war. The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, depicts the second flag-raising on Mount Suribachi by six Marines."
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