Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal picture of six World War II fighting men raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.

Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag raising photo in World War II, poses at the New Pisa Bar and restaurant in San Francisco, Dec. 20, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Bill Genaust, left, and Joe Rosenthal photograph U.S. Marines at the second flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, Feb. 23, 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps/Bob Campbell) ...

The Battle of Iwo Jima raged on from Feb. 19, 1945, to March 16, ... Taken by Joe Rosenthal on Feb. 23, 1945, the photo features five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag.

Joe Rosenthal/Associated Press The Battle of Iwo Jima: A History U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago.

FILE- Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag raising photo in World War II, poses at the New Pisa Bar and restaurant in San Francisco, Dec. 20, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) ...

Six Marines raised a second flag, and AP photographer Joe Rosenthal took a picture of them. Known as "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," the photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.

Joe Rosenthal, a veteran AP cameraman, who took the famous picture of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, holding camera. (Bettmann via Getty Images) That photo shows the second flag that was erected on ...

Joe Rosenthal, photographer who shot Iwo Jima flag-raising, dies The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century.

A block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese ...