Washington, D.C. is home to many of the nations war memorials such as the Korean
War Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The Iwo Jima Memorial honors the U.S. Marine and Navy corpsmen at the
battle of Iwo Jima at the end of the Second World War.
The statue is based on Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph
of five marines and a navy corpsman raising an American flag on Mount Suribachi
during the battle of Iwo Jima.
