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Iwo Jima Photo - Raising The Flag

Marines admit they misidentified one man in iconic 1945 Iwo Jima photo

The Marine Corps acknowledged Thursday it had misidentified one of the six men in the iconic 1945 war photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. The Marine Corps investigation identified a man who has never been officially linked to the famous photo: Pvt. 1st Class Harold Schultz, who died in 1995 and went through life without publicly talking about his role. The investigation concluded with near certainty that Schultz was one of the Marines raising the flag in the photo. The investigation also determined that John Bradley, a Navy corpsman, was not in the photograph taken on Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal, a photographer for the Associated Press.

Image via CNN - taken by Joe Rosenthal for AP.

Flag Raising Photo Jima Iwo

Does it really matter? The fact that the flag was raised is what really matters. There must have been a dozen other islands where the flag was raised but none of them got credit for it.