USA Today: Marine Corps investigating claims about iconic Iwo Jima photo
The Marine Corps is investigating whether one of the men in an iconic World War II photo taken at Iwo Jima was misidentified, Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns confirmed Tuesday.
The investigation comes years after amateur historians Eric Krelle, of Omaha, Neb., and Stephen Foley, of Wexford, Ireland, began raising questions about the identity of one of the men in the photograph, The Omaha World-Herald reported. The photo was taken on Feb. 23, 1945, by Associated Press photographer Joe Resenthal, and showed a group of men raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, on the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima.
The duo alleges that the man identified as John Bradley, a Navy corpsman, was actually Harold Henry Schultz of Detroit, who passed away in 1995, AP reported.
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