 Welcome to All Hands Update, this is your week in Navy history. February 23, 1945, photographer Joe Rosenthal took a picture of five Marines and a sailor raising Old Gloria top Mount Suribachi on the small island of Iwo Jima. Although the event marked the second flag raising on Suribachi, Rosenthal's photo would become the most reproduced military photo in history. It made the six flag raisers instant celebrities. Sergeant Mike Strank, Corporals Holland Block, Renny Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Private First Class Franklin Susley, and Navy pharmacist mate Second Class John Bradley, stood atop Suribachi to raise the flag that day. Today, both flags are on permanent display at the Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Inspired by the photo, sculptor Felix DeWeldin designed and built the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, a 78-foot tall bronze statue that now stands in Arlington, Virginia. Read more about this historic flag raising at All Hands Magazine online.