Once the statue was completed in plaster it was carefully disassembled into 108 pieces and trucked to the Bedi-Rassy Art Foundry, Brooklyn, New York for casting in bronze. Steel framework, roughly duplicating the bone structure of the human body, was assembled to support the huge figures under construction. The figures were originally molded in the nude so that the strain of muscles would be prominently shown after clothing was modeled on the struggling figures. All available pictures and physical statistics of the three Marines who gave their lives were assembled and used in the modeling of their faces. de Weldon, who modeled their faces in clay. Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and John Bradley posed for Mr. The three survivors of the flag raising, Rene A. ![]() de Weldon, then on duty with the Navy, constructed a scale model and then a life-size model inspired by the scene. Shortly after Associated Press news photographer Joe Rosenthal's inspiring action picture of the Marines raising the second flag on Mount Suribachi was released, Sculptor Felix W. Although the statue depicts one of the most famous incidents of World War II, the Memorial is dedicated to all Marines who have given their lives in the defense of the United States since 1775. The Marine Corps War Memorial stands as a symbol of a grateful nation's esteem for the honored dead of the United States Marine Corps.
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