BENGALURU: One of World War II’s most iconic images — Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — is being replicated in Bengaluru. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal is one of the most recognised visuals exemplifying US victory in the war.
Now, a new park coming up at Deve Gowda Petrol Bunk Junction (officially Kittur Rani Chennamma Circle) in Padmanabhanagar, has a larger-than-life replica depicting four soldiers hoisting a flag — on the lines of United States Marine Corps War Memorial at Arlington, Virginia. Only the finishing touches and painting works are pending at the city park. While the original image is of six American soldiers hoisting the star-spangled US flag atop Mount Suribachi, the Bengaluru version will showcase the Indian tricolour. Even the soldiers are suitably modified to look more Indian.
