U.S Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial), Arlington Ridge Park

A brief history;

• The U.S Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national monument in Arlington, Virginia and is located in Arlington Ridge Park next to the Netherlands Carillon.

• The Iwo Jima Statue is a poignant bronze statue sculpted by Felix de Weldon, recapturing the Pulitzer-Prize winning photograph by photographer Joe Rosenthal of five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

If you would like to see more of the striking statuary from Washington, D.C, please visit these galleries;

• Lafayette Square

• Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

• Robert A. Taft Memorial & James A. Garfield Monument

• Statue of Abraham Lincoln

• Statue of Thomas Jefferson

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (1)

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

• Arlington Memorial Bridge & Watergate Steps (1)