Louis R. Lowery

Louis R. Lowery

Louis R. "Lou" Lowery (July 24 1916 – April 15 1987) was a United States Marine Corps photographer best known for taking the first flag-raising photograph on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. The first flag raised was too small to be seen easily from the nearby landing beaches, so a second, larger flag was raised, resulting in the famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.

A founder and former president of the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association (USMCCCA), Lowery was a photographic director of "Leatherneck Magazine", a publication of the Marine Corps.

He is buried in Quantico National Cemetery.

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* [http://www.loc.gov/shop/index.php?action=cCatalog.showItem&cid=48&scid=390&iid=3583&PHPSESSID=122ce69ec917aa58bb5e2114d601dded The First Flag Raising on Mt. Suribachi]


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