MARINES : features an American Flag silhouette behind theThomas Jefferson image, along with an exclusive security watermark of the official Marines Emblem. This currency proudly displays one of the most historical and famous images in Marines history which occurred during World War II. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. It is the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.